“When I’m not in the mood, I love to think about death and how you can die, and I think that the best way, unless you can arrange death in a dream, is to dive into the ocean at night with a liner,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in March 1926

It was only a year after he published his first collection of short stories, In Our Time, which includes a fictionalized account of the chaos on the Smyrna embankment in September 1922, and a year before he published his flagship novel, The Sun Also Rises. . Two years later, in 1928, his father committed suicide. Hemingway himself will commit suicide in 35 years. And yet the idea of ​​death arose in him much earlier than his scientists had hitherto believed.

The passage in question is in an archive recently opened to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, and provides a new, more insightful look at the life and work of the Nobel laureate. The collection, titled The Toby and Betty Bruce Ernest Hemingway Collection, includes, among other things, handwritten notes, photographs, letters, personal items, and four short stories.

Experts, according to the New York Times, believe that the new material will change our perception of who Hemingway was. And certainly not everything around him was “black”. The new archival material contains photographs of bright and happy moments in the author’s life, such as his marriage to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, and travels in Africa.

However, of the unknown stories that have come to light, the most interesting is that of the writer and friend of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, whom Hemingway describes as a clumsy boxer who leaves the ring bloody but victorious.