User:Victoriaearle/Hemingway sandbox

• Last sorta good version
• good version to work from

Ernest Hemingway

To check

• studying billfishes?? I removed here, needs better sourcing
• head injuries as cause of death, I removed here. Check the sources, rewrite, reformat sources. See Farah, Andrew, Hemingway's Brain, ISBN 978-1-61117-742-8
• rewrite settings = abroad (not America), should be in themes, is explained well in Allen Joseph's "Hemingway's Spanish Sensibility" in Donaldson's Cambride Companion on the shelf, removed here, and here
• check re prose influenced by Spanish etc., removed here.  Done
• sort out Beegel section (was cited to directly to Beegle, now not??), changed here

Spanish civil war

Notes to self

• Section needs work >> Martha & EH in Spain; Spain to Key West to Spain to Cuba? What happened to Pauline?
• Reread Meyers (321 ish) & Mellow; order Reynolds & read

Baker, The Writer as Artist

• The Spanish tragedy - pp. 223-263
• "A writer's problem does not change .... It is always to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a sway that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it." >> EH speech to Second American Writer's Congress, NYC, June 4 1937 after returning from 1st trip to Spain during the war. Furthermore, "There is only one form of government that cannot produce good writers, and that system is facism. For facism is a lie told by bullies. A writer who will not lie cannot live and work under fascism." pp. 223-24
• He'd been following develepments in Spain since early in his career 224
• From early 1931 it was clear that there would be another European war - Hitler wanted war & Hemingway predicted there wouldn't be war in '35, 36 but in '37 or '38. But Baker says he didn't expect Spain to "become a sort of international testing-ground for Germany, Italy, and Russia before the Spanish Civil War was over" 227
• Raised funds to provide ambulances for Loyalists in 36 & by 37 was chairman of Ambulance committee, American friends of Spanish democracy 229
• First trip Feb 27 1937 sailed to report for NANA, flew to Barcelona mid-March, on to Alicante to join Loyalists after Brihuega (?) 229
• Worked w/ Joris Ivens April & May on The Spanish Earth 230
• Back in US on May 19; film screened at WH for FDR July 8. Back to Spain in August (trip #2). 233
• Second trip August 14 37 - Jan 28 38 produced The Fifth Column234
• Baker > "Like the film, the play showed that war is hell" 234