{"id":1817,"date":"2009-07-20T15:41:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T22:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/theres-no-need-to-re-set-the-old-mans-table\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T05:05:21","slug":"theres-no-need-to-re-set-the-old-mans-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/20\/theres-no-need-to-re-set-the-old-mans-table\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s Really No Need To Re-set The Old Man’s Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t Touch \u2018A Moveable Feast\u2019<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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By\u00a0A. E. HOTCHNER<\/span><\/p>\n

Westport, Conn.<\/span><\/p>\n

BOOKSTORES are getting shipments of a significantly changed edition of Ernest Hemingway\u2019s masterpiece, \u201cA Moveable Feast,\u201d first published posthumously by Scribner in 1964. This new edition, also published by Scribner, has been extensively reworked by a grandson who doesn\u2019t like what the original said about his grandmother, Hemingway\u2019s second wife.<\/p>\n

The grandson has removed several sections of the book\u2019s final chapter and replaced them with other writing of Hemingway\u2019s that the grandson feels paints his grandma in a more sympathetic light. Ten other chapters that roused the grandson\u2019s displeasure have been relegated to an appendix, thereby, according to the grandson, creating \u201ca truer representation of the book my grandfather intended to publish.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is his claim that Mary Hemingway, Ernest\u2019s fourth wife, cobbled the manuscript together from shards of an unfinished work and that she created the final chapter, \u201cThere Is Never Any End to Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an author, I am concerned by Scribner\u2019s involvement in this \u201crestored edition.\u201d With this reworking as a precedent, what will Scribner do, for instance, if a descendant of F. Scott Fitzgerald demands the removal of the chapter in \u201cA Moveable Feast\u201d about the size of Fitzgerald\u2019s penis, or if Ford Madox Ford\u2019s grandson wants to delete references to his ancestor\u2019s body odor.<\/p>\n

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from The New York Times Don\u2019t Touch \u2018A Moveable Feast\u2019 By\u00a0A. E. HOTCHNER Westport, Conn. BOOKSTORES are getting shipments of a significantly changed edition of Ernest Hemingway\u2019s masterpiece, \u201cA Moveable Feast,\u201d first published posthumously by Scribner in 1964. This new edition, also published by Scribner, has been extensively reworked by a grandson who doesn\u2019t like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}