A Moveable Feast
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- ISBN13: 9780684833637
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“You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this pad and this pencil.”
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Fantastic War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe’s cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist forms; James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just concluded Ulysses; Gertude Stein held court at 27 rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of rue génération perdue; and T. S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London. It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.
Among these tiny, reflective sketches are unforgettable encounters with the members of Hemingway’s slightly rag-tag circle of artists and writers, some also fated to achieve fame and glory, others to fall into obscurity. Here, too, is an evocation of the Paris that Hemingway knew as a young man — a map drawn in his distinct prose of the streets and cafés and bookshops that comprised the city in which he, as a young writer, sometimes struggling against the cold and hunger of near poverty, honed the skills of his craft.
A Moveable Feast is at once an elegy to the remarkable group of expatriates that gathered in Paris during the twenties and a tribute to the risks and rewards of the writerly life.Amazon.com Review
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 delightful 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 confront and at every café table, there were the most extraordinary people living wonderful lives and telling fantastic tales. Gertrude Stein invited Hemingway to come every afternoon and sip “fragrant, colorless alcohols” and chat admid her fantastic 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 right sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”
Hemingway perfectly captures the fragile magic of a special time and place, and he manages to be evocative lacking arresting any fake notes of corniness. “This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very pleased,” 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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What a poisonous, vituperatve, jealous, mean-spirtied man he must have been. Also self-righteous and condescending.
Does anyone read his tripe anymore?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
That’s all I felt as I selected up this book to read. Is it fact or fiction? To me, and others that I have spoken to, it makes a world of difference as to how I approach a book, it’s characters, location, and events that take place. This book is supposed to be Hemingway’s life tale. I have no thought who is on the take in.
There is a disclaimer by the publishing company that this is a work of fiction.
Not to mention Hemingway’s own explanation that does not make a bit of sense. “If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is permanently the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what was written as fact.”
Following that, there is a note written by M.H. that states that this book covers the years 1921-1926 in Paris.
Finally, there are nine black and white photographs of people and places that supposedly do not even exist.
I became so frustrated with all of these contradictions that I did not even bother to read the book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book A MOVEABLE FEAST IS ONE OF THE MOST BORING BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ. BECAUSE THE STORY HAS NO PLOT, IT’S SIMPLY ABOUT HEMINGWAY AND HIS WRITING, AND HOW OTHER PEOPLE SAW HIM AS A WRITER. I WOULD NOT REFER PEOPLE TO READ THIS BOOK, UNLESS THEY ARE LOOKING FOR A GOOD BOOK THAT WILL PUT YOU TO SLEEP….
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I like to read for enjoyment, learning, & inspiration. This did not do it for me!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Ernest Hemingway was a excellent writer, but not everything he wrote is automatically excellent (that’s called being human, I presume).
Maybe being an customary writer gives one the privilege of having any rambling published (and bring shame on on persons who dare say it ain’t a masterpiece).
This book does have an audience, though, maybe persons interested in his lifestyle in Paris. Still, his style here is strangely anti-Hemingway-esque: too wordy.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5