Disclaimers

It is completely stunning to me that a publisher would produce a substantially altered version of A Moveable Feast and not provide an enormous disclaimer on the cover and in the front materials or access to the original text, especially given that there seems to be a fair amount of clarity about Hemingway's intentions for the work.  I'm not an enormous Hemingway fan, just no particular match between his prose style and what resonates most strongly with me, but the emotional honesty in A Moveable Feast is marvelous.  I mean, have you ever read a sentence like this one, introducing Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas: "They seemed to like us too and treated us as though we were very good, well mannered and promising children and I felt that they forgave us for being in love and being married--time would fix that--and when my wife invited them to tea, they accepted."  The insertion is deadly, the sentiments precisely and efficiently drawn.  It's amazing to me that Hemingway's grandson has the temerity to mess with a work that contains sentences like that, and that Scribner has the temerity to publish it under Hemingway's name.  If it's to be A Moveable Feast and Hemingway Family Intergenerational Drama, by all means, publish it under the grandson's name and file it near Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.