The relationship between literary giant Ernest Hemingway and legendary filmmaker Orson Welles will be explored in the upcoming novel A Duel of Bulls from British writer Pete Carvill.
Slated for publication in spring 2025, the novel, according to Carvill, will “tell the mostly-true story of the ‘friendship’ between Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles.”
“The Hemingway-Welles connection begins in 1937 when the pair first meet in New York where Welles is hired to do the narration for the Hemingway-written film The Spanish Earth. A fistfight later, the pair began a friendship that would last for over 25 years until Hemingway’s death. Until his own death in 1985, Welles spent the rest of his career grappling with Hemingway’s vision of Spain,” Carvill wrote on his website.
The novel can be pre-ordered at amazon.co.uk/Duel-Bulls-Pete-Carvill/dp/1785908960/
The relationship between the two men has long fascinated scholars and fans.
Three years ago, Matthew Asprey Gear, author of At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City, probed the “strange relationship” between Welles and Hemingway in Three Dangerous Summers: Orson Welles’s Unrealized Hemingway Trilogy, which was published in The Hemingway Review.
Gear said the relationship seems to have been “marked on both sides by wariness, mockery, and occasional outright contempt – but they also had relatively friendly encounters.”
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