The tourist who visit Cuba feel attracted to the image of an exceptional man: Ernest Hemingway, the polemic North American novelist, Nobel Prize of Literature, who lived in Cuba for almost 20 years.
His presence is notorious in different places: The Hemingway Marina, a restaurant in Cojímar, a hotel named The Old Man and the Sea ( like his famous novel), his house museum, the Floridita restaurant and many other places. He was considered a myth, for some experts, a genius sometimes hard to understand. His concise style, synthetic, mordant, realist, has impacted readers and writers of all languages. He es very published and traslated author.
His life was adventurous, mysterious, tragic, limitless and dangerous, revealign an attractive but very polemic personality. His African safaris, his participation in the first and second world wars. in the Spanish Civil War his stays in Paris, the persecution in his yacht by German Submarines, and his life in Cuba, are alredy a novel. Goof part of the stories he tells in his book are autobiographical.
There are mysteries about Hemingway in Cuba. There are stories of love, fear and passion. But the truht is that the writer lived in the island long enough to leave traves. He had a peculiar house, full of book, animals heads hunted in Africa, his war trophies, paintings, protraits, stationery, cats and florid vegetation. He left his yacht El Pilar, lots of memories and great friends.
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