A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
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Author: Ernest HemingwayEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-05-29
ISBN: 068482499X
Number of pages: 219
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: Terrific Read
Summary: 5 Stars
I have the English and The French versions. The French version feels like a Paris travel guide.
Hemingway had been an important American writer for thirty to forty years. He was a combination of male macho and sensitivity. I like his three or four big novels including Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, and Old Man and the Sea. Farewell to Arms has exception prose in the first chapter.
Recently, I spent some time in Paris and I re-traced some of the old caf?s where Hemingway drank wine and spent time talking with his wife and fellow writers. One place on rue St. Germaine is now a Starbucks. I walked down the street where Gertrude Stein lived. My guidebook was the present book written by Hemingway in the 1950s. It is about his life in Paris in the 1920s on the south bank of the river, south of the University of Paris on and around Saint-Michel and Montparnasse, and in the areas between, and the people he knew. He was a poor and struggling writer living off of small royalty cheques from America. Paris has changed. Now it is a relatively expensive place to live. A modest apartment can cost a million dollars. But the atmosphere remains for those who can afford to live there: interesting and culturally diverse. As in Hemingway's day, there are still some cheap places to live.
The stories are (both in French and English, slightly different in translation):
- A Caf? on Saint Michel,
- Miss Stein,
- The Lost Generation,
- Shakespeare,
- Hunger Makes You Focus,
- People of the Seine,
- False Spring,
- The End of an Avocation,
- Ford Maddox,
- Birth of a New School,
- Pascin,
- Erza Pound,
- A Strange Enough Ending,
- The Man Was marked For Death,
- Evan Shipman,
- Agent of Evil,
- Scott Fitzgerald,
- Hawks Do Not Share,
- Matter of Measurements, and
- Paris Never Stops, or There is Never an End to Paris.
I liked most. 5 Stars.
Summary of A Moveable Feast
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
In the preface to A Moveable Feast, Hemingway remarks casually that "if the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction"--and, indeed, fact or fiction, it doesn't matter, for his slim memoir of Paris in the 1920s is as enchanting as anything made up and has become the stuff of legend. Paris in the '20s! Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived happily on $5 a day and still had money for drinks at the Closerie des Lilas, skiing in the Alps, and fishing trips to Spain. On every corner and at every caf? table, there were the most extraordinary people living wonderful lives and telling fantastic stories. Gertrude Stein invited Hemingway to come every afternoon and sip "fragrant, colorless alcohols" and chat admid her great pictures. He taught Ezra Pound how to box, gossiped with James Joyce, caroused with the fatally insecure Scott Fitzgerald (the acid portraits of him and his wife, Zelda, are notorious). Meanwhile, Hemingway invented a new way of writing based on this simple premise: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."
Hemingway beautifully captures the fragile magic of a special time and place, and he manages to be nostalgic without hitting any false notes of sentimentality. "This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy," he concludes. Originally published in 1964, three years after his suicide, A Moveable Feast was the first of his posthumous books and remains the best. --David Laskin
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