Don't we have countless books that we could read hundreds of times? It is impossible for us to give our lives to read all the books that exist, however, it is also almost impossible not to stop and think about which ones are 5 lost books that we will never be able to read… Yes, they exist, or at least they existed… And no, it is not like the cemetery of forgotten books that Carlos Ruíz Zafón told us in his great book "The wind's shadow". These are books that unfortunately were burned or lost… We are going to see a selection of them.
The lost books of the Bible
The current Bible is a canonical covenant that was agreed between the ecclesiastical hierarchy during the Council of Trent (1545-1563) to unite Old and New Testament. However, in them, not everything that existed in the Bible is gathered. It is recognized that there were at least 20 more books, called apocrypha (some texts could be rescued but not the vast majority) that were lost. It is also known that at least one of them bore the title "The Book of Battles of Yahweh".
Why these apocryphal have not been considered as part of the Bible is in the following explanations:
- Rejection of Jesus and the apostles.
- Rejection by the Jewish Community.
- Rejection by much of the Catholic Church.
- They convey false teachings.
- They are not prophetic.
The first World War by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway He was the driver of an Italian ambulance during the First World Warl. Also participated in the Spanish Civil War and at the beginning of the Second World War. All this led him to write a series of stories which he later baptized with the title "The First World War."
What happened to these writings? The first of his four wives put these writings in a suitcase to travel from Paris to Lausanne (Switzerland), to meet Hemingway himself. When it arrived and went in search of the suitcase, he realized that it was not where he left it ... Everything makes one suspect that said suitcase was stolen. This event led to the end of the marriage. Hemingway could never stop reproaching his wife for that unfortunate event.
You might think that Hemingway tried to collect those lost and written notes again, but failed to do so. He continued to write new stories and all that made him the renowned author we study today.
Memories, by Lord Byron
Lord Byron had at least a quite controversial life: possibly he had a daughter with his half-sister, he could be the lover of many British aristocrats of his time and he went to fight for the independence of Greece ... Perhaps he wrote down a large part of these memories in a manuscript that his widow's lawyers burned once the writer had died. According to a literary critic, these stories "They fit only in a brothel and would have condemned Lord Byron to eternal infamy."
What we have no doubt about is that said memoirs, said biography, would have been a best-seller.
Poem «Margites» by Homer
As we all know, Homer was the creator of great works such as "The Iliad" y "The odyssey"However, it is believed that before the creation of these great works, he wrote a poem called "Margites", written around the year 700 a. C.
This poem was lost, but according to Aristotle himself in his Poetics, stated that Homer with the poem «Margites » it marked a line in comedies, as it did with the Iliad and Odyssey in tragedies.
A waste of incalculable literary value, no doubt.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
It is said, it is said, it was rumored in his day, that under the influence of cocaine or some similar drug, Robert Lois Stevenson, wrote 30.000 words of a work in just 3 days, but not the version that is known today about "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", but a much more talkative and delusional, where the writer under the influence of drugs mixed lyrics, horror and fantasy. This literary version never saw the light. The cause of this was the author's own wife who suggested a somewhat more moralistic and less "crazy" version of the book.
Stevenson had no choice but to throw this manuscript into a fireplace and rewrite said book as it is currently known.