Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
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In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first time to Venice and there, at a duck shoot in the lagoon he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking young Venetian woman just out of finishing school. What followed was a platonic love affair; he continued to visit her in Venice; she in turn came to Cuba while he wrote The Old Man and the Sea. This is the illuminating story of a writer and a muse that intimately examines both the cost to Adriana and the fractured heart and changing art of Hemingway in his fifties.
'Hemingway [is] an enduringly fascinating character, one whom di Robilant, with his easy-paced style, has sympathetically brought to life.' Literary Review
'Effortlessly and expertly explores the secret desires, successes, and depressive obstacles that shrouded Ernest Hemingway's final productive years.' New York Journal of Books
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5After World War II, Ernest Hemingway was in a funk. He was depressed, had writer's block and seems to be regretting marrying his 4th wife Mary Welsh. In an attempt to cheer him up,Mary organizes a motoring tour of the south of France and Italy and in Venice Hemingway met the love 18-year old Adriana who was his muse for his largely regrettable novel Across the River and Into the TreesIt's debatable whether or not Hemingway actually had a sexual relationship with Adriana, but he was clearly smitten and there was a voluminous correspondence between the two with lots of "Papa" and "daughter" blather. (And how did anyone take this blatantly Freudian dialogue seriously?) And why did Mary Welsh stick around? Was she that desperate to be close to fame?In the end, Hemingway left Adriana's reputation ruined in Venice and like him, she ended her life in suicide. This was just a sad story all around.