Donald Stewart, a 72 year old writer in Pompalona, Spain has hit the jackpot. He just happened to find, in a letter from Ernest Hemingway to Stewarts father, an unpublished short story by Hemingway. But the real surprise.... It's a satire.
The main character is a comical version of what was to become the Hemingway hero (those of you who reade Hemingway know what I'm talking about.) The main character, a bull fighter, kills a bull with his bare hands but loses part of his entrails in the process.
But alas excited Hemingway scholars, the story will not be published. Any Hemingway piece published must be approved by both the Hemingway Foundation and the Hemingway estate. The foundation says okay, the family says no. Bad, bad family. I want to read the story but they won't let us!!!
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