The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-22, edted by
Sandra Spanier and Robert W Trogdon - review  Hemingway's
letters burst off the page with brilliance, wit and rage     •
The Guardian,     • Jump to comments () Ernest Hemingway On The
Boat Pilar In Cuba Papa and Pilar: Hemingway fishing off the
coast of Cuba. Photograph: Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images  It has been
widely remarked that F Scott Fitzgerald is enjoying a
renaissance; his erstwhile friend and eternal rival, Ernest
Hemingway, would be apoplectic with rage at the idea of being in
eclipse while Fitzgerald shines. Two new books may well indicate
that Hemingway, too, is making a comeback – or rather that, like
Fitzgerald, he never really went away; he looms too large to be
elbowed aside so easily. Hemingway was an American Lear not with
three daughters but three sons, whose devotion and masculinity
he constantly tested; a Lear who tried to relinquish his
kingdom, and was driven mad by the loss of his power; a Lear
always on the verge of becoming F