Ernest" lives today.

Ernest Hemingway lives today in a house built in the Spanish style, standing on a farm half an hour from the city of "Havana." He has given this farm of his the name "Finca Vigía," and it is surrounded by a stout wall that makes entry difficult... Ernest Hemingway's face differs from his photographs: he looks tired, and the days have bent his back. And the tired man says that he loves his "trade"... and were it not for that love he would have chosen commerce, say, or engineering... "Ernest" cares nothing for money or for success and titles; he pursues his work without them — he does not even trouble himself

about publishing or printing his books... The proof of it is that he now has four works unpublished, and he does not intend to print them, for a simple reason: the tax amounts to 85% of the original price... The great writer is thinking of leaving these four stories to his family so that they may profit from them; and he will not consent to disclose to anyone even the names of these stories — but he says they are bigger and greater than his last story, "The Old Man and the Sea," which won worldwide fame. Living with "Hemingway" is his wife Mary, a woman small of stature, slight of body, pleasant in appearance for all her simplicity; then she is the writer's private secretary, arranging his appointments for him and preparing whatever gives him ease; and she is besides a housewife and a skilled fisherwoman, who has won a prize in fishing... and the table is hardly ever without a fish she has caught and cooked herself... The amusing thing is that Mary met Ernest in 1944 in the office of the newspaper "Time" in London, and married him two years later. And when "Ernest" sits with his visi-tors or before the photographer's lens, he takes off his spectacles, so as not to "frighten them," as he puts it...

In his house the visitors behold books — huge,