Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Who is the author of the book the author wrote?

Hemingway's A Moveable Feast is being republished in a new edition that A.E. Hotchner, a writer himself and a friend of EH, claims is not only not true to EH's intentions, but downright unethical.

All publishers, Scribner included, are guardians of the books that authors entrust to them. Someone who inherits an author’s copyright is not entitled to amend his work... Ernest was very protective of the words he wrote, words that gave the literary world a new style of writing. Surely he has the right to have these words protected against frivolous incursion, like this reworked volume that should be called “A Moveable Book.” More...

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