Tang Xiaoxian: Hemingway met Adrienne by chance (picture)

Tang Xiaoxian: Hemingway met Adrienne by chance (picture) Phoenix City Tang Xiaoxian In 1948, the famous American novelist Ernest Hayes, who was 49 years old...

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In 1948, the 49-year-old famous American novelist Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife Mary Hemingway revisited Italy and lived in Venice. One day after autumn, the weather was cold and rainy. Hemingway, who loved hunting, was still very interested in hunting. He accompanied Count Carl Kechler and his friends on a hunting trip and hunted wild pigeons for fun. The nineteen-year-old noble lady Adriana Ivansage is the only woman in this group of people. Adrienne is naturally beautiful and charming. Her father fought on the battlefield and died for the country, and was raised by her mother. Her mother had a very strict upbringing and sent her to a Catholic school so that she could become a devout Catholic. Adriana had never fired a gun before this trip. The first time I went hunting, I not only found nothing, but my face was bruised by the bullet casing that was ejected from the gun chamber. That afternoon, at Kechler Manor, Adrienne was sitting by the large stove drying her clothes when Hemingway approached her. She turned to look at him, and he saw that the bullet casing scratches on her face were still red. "How are you, my dear?" Hemingway greeted in Italian. "Fortunately, I wish I had a comb." She wanted to comb her wet hair. She stopped laughing because of the pain on her face. Adrienne's pale and long face looked gloomy in the dim light of the stove. Hemingway stared into her pale brown eyes and was lost for a moment. He put down the brandy glass in his hand, took out his comb from his pocket, gave it to Adrienne, and said, "My daughter, use mine." She smiled out of genuine joy. It is strange that a gift as simple as a comb could tie two such different people together. Later, Adrienne became another confidante of Hemingway. Hemingway was much older and well versed in the affairs of the world, but Adrienne's innocence, tenderness, tenderness and thoughtfulness were qualities that attracted Hemingway that Mary did not possess. Hemingway entertained Adriana many times and had dinner with her at the restaurant of the Gritti Palace, a luxury hotel where he stayed. Adriana also often invited Hemingway to visit her manor and talk all night long in front of the fireplace in the living room. In Hemingway's next novel, "Across the River and Into the Woods," he used the male protagonist to express his love for Adrienne. The novel evolves into a love story between a nineteen-year-old girl and a fifty-year-old man. Here is a description of the heroine Renata: Then she walked into the room. She is a tall beauty with a long stride and a youthful glow. She was careless, letting the wind ruffle her hair. Her complexion was ashen, almost olive. Her grace is enough to win your heart or anyone else's. Her dark hair was full of luster and flowed down her shoulders. ——"Across the River and into the Woods" In 1950, Adriana, her mother Dora, and her brother Jean Franco went to Cuba to visit the Hemingway couple. Hemingway entertained them at a Little Florida restaurant and invited them to go fishing on the Pilar fishing boat. Mary enjoyed spending time with Jean Franco, and Hemingway enjoyed spending time with Adrienne. Mary did not know that the heroine Renata in her husband's novel "Across the River and into the Woods" was written based on Adrienne. Renata originally means "rebirth" and comes from Renata Bugatti, a friend Hemingway and his first wife Hadley made in Cortina, Italy many years ago. He wanted the love and admiration of his hero, Colonel Cornwell, to represent youthful vitality and be reborn in his heart. Let’s look at a description from the novel: She was tall and well-proportioned, young and beautiful. The colonel kissed her and felt her soft body clinging to him, while his own body was thick, strong and weathered. When he kissed her, his mind went blank. ——"Across the River and Into the Woods" Adriana admitted that her love affair with Hemingway never reached its peak, but in the basement of Hemingway's former residence in Lookout Mountain in Cuba, she found at least 26 affectionate and charming love letters written in Italian. Gerald, Hemingway scholar and vice president of the Hemingway Society Dr. Kennedy, talking about the relationship between Hemingway and Adrienne, said: "We can know from Mary's diary that the relationship between (Hemingway and Adrienne) was very close, and it may have been a relationship of close friends. Although Hemingway was suffering from many illnesses at that time, including occasional impotence, it is indeed difficult to imagine... It is well known that there is such a pattern. Every time he writes a major novel, there is always one Mrs. Ren, and the previous marriage has not yet broken up, he is already looking for and pursuing his next wife. I think it is fair to say that Adriana has an important influence on him under the same circumstances. She not only brings sensual excitement to his life, but also brings him creative inspiration. I think that whether they have done it in the bedroom, in fact, he has no interest in doing it. "

Picture description: In 1950, Hemingway had a tryst with Adrienne at Lookout Mountain, his former residence in Cuba.