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| | * ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories'' | | * ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories'' |
| | * ''Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner'' | | * ''Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner'' |
| − | * ''A Moveable Feast'' | + | * ''A Moveable Feast'' (1964, published posthumously as his memoir) |
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| | He grew up in a [[Congregationalism|Congregationalist]] home, but became an [[atheist]] in his late teenage years. He hid this fact from his parents and later married into the [[Roman Catholic]] faith, although his conversion was not sincere. He was critical of his father, saying that “My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”<ref>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/hemingway</ref> Ernest Hemingway was also a compulsive liar, and had a soft-spot for [[Communist]]s, even turning a blind eye to the Spanish [[Stalin]]ists' massacres in [[Spanish Civil War|Spain]]. | | He grew up in a [[Congregationalism|Congregationalist]] home, but became an [[atheist]] in his late teenage years. He hid this fact from his parents and later married into the [[Roman Catholic]] faith, although his conversion was not sincere. He was critical of his father, saying that “My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”<ref>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/hemingway</ref> Ernest Hemingway was also a compulsive liar, and had a soft-spot for [[Communist]]s, even turning a blind eye to the Spanish [[Stalin]]ists' massacres in [[Spanish Civil War|Spain]]. |
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| | Although Hemingway ultimately moved out of [[Cuba]] and died in [[Idaho]] in 1961, he was put on a Cuban postage stamp by [[Fidel Castro]] in 1964. As explained by one commentator: | | Although Hemingway ultimately moved out of [[Cuba]] and died in [[Idaho]] in 1961, he was put on a Cuban postage stamp by [[Fidel Castro]] in 1964. As explained by one commentator: |
| | {{cquote|About Castro the revolutionary — originally anti-imperialist and non-communist — Hemingway liked what he heard and was vocal in his praise for the young leader after he seized power in January 1959. In the months that followed, Hemingway proved more than willing to make excuses for the revolution, even when the Castro brothers started to execute their opponents after raucous show trials in the national stadium.<ref>https://lithub.com/what-did-hemingway-really-think-of-castro/</ref>}} | | {{cquote|About Castro the revolutionary — originally anti-imperialist and non-communist — Hemingway liked what he heard and was vocal in his praise for the young leader after he seized power in January 1959. In the months that followed, Hemingway proved more than willing to make excuses for the revolution, even when the Castro brothers started to execute their opponents after raucous show trials in the national stadium.<ref>https://lithub.com/what-did-hemingway-really-think-of-castro/</ref>}} |
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| | + | Although ostensibly a convert to [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]], Hemingway was never public about his real religious beliefs. "All thinking men are [[atheist]]s," Hemingway asserted in his posthumously published memoirs, ''A Moveable Feast'' (1964).<ref name="Ernest">https://hollowverse.com/ernest-hemingway/</ref> Biographer Paul Johnson wrote that "[Hemingway] did not only not believe in God but regarded organized religion as a menace to human happiness ... [he] seems to have been devoid of the religious spirit… [and] ceased to practice religion at the earliest possible moment."<ref name="Ernest"/> |
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