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A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 9780099285045 Books

I am a Hemingway fan, but I put off reading A Moveable Feast until I was 39 year old and vacationing in Paris. I had been told by multiple people over the years that it wasn't a good book; rather, a collection of mostly-real stories about Hemingway's years in Paris during his early 20's.

Three things you should take when traveling in Paris: this book, a guidebook, and lots of money. (It's still a good book if you are not in Paris)

Hemingway was newly married and soon a father while living in the Latin Quarter. It's incredible to read about Hemingway's experiences and walk the very streets he wrote about. A number of the Cafes and Restaurants that he frequented are still running, and some of them have the same interior (the post WW1 atmosphere has changed). Hemingway discusses his newfound poverty, which came on suddenly after he quit journalism to write fiction. Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and F Scott Fitzgerald appear in multiple stories. It appears that Hemingway is unsparingly honest about all of them. His portrait of Fitzgerald is particularly poignant - he drinks too much, is a massive problem when he drinks, Zelda is a complete nightmare, and she encourages his drinking. Hemingway figures because she is jealous of his genius.

There are numerous descriptions about Parisian haunts (Sylvia Beach's bookshop, the Seine) foods, and fascinating conversations with French veterans and his little son.


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A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 9780099285045 Books Reviews

This is a posthumous book comprised of fragments. Some of the writing is crisp and brilliant; other parts are morose and sophomoric. But overall, we get a good glimpse of Hemingway's mostly happy years in Paris in the mid twenties. The author claims there is more fiction than fact, an arbitrary and unexplained process where he chooses who and what to include and what to leave out. He claims that Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald were very close friends, and yet the descriptions of the former are fleeting and those of the latter rather depressing and uncomplimentary. He seems to enjoy trashing Ford Maddox Ford. Sketches of Gertrude Stein and Sylvia Beach are mostly positive, although he gets some digs in on Stein at the end. Vignettes about horse racing, boxing, skiing, drinking flesh out some of the author's interests and milieu. The description of some by now obscure painters and writers shows rapier wit and description.

The clear draw is insight into the writer's early life in a marvelous city most of us love. We must keep in mind he was in his mid-twenties too, and not yet an established author. Physical and mental scars from WWI had not healed. Themes of mental illness and alcoholism are explored in other people, not himself.

The great cafes of Montparnasse and Saint Germaine remain, somewhat gentrified, perhaps still a stage for all the diverse people who frequent them. Today's artists and writers probably can't afford to live in Hemingway's old neighborhoods, but they are somewhere within the Peripherique, recording their Paris. The author would understand.

Affection for his first son and first wife, "the heroine" of the book abound. There are some interesting insights into the craft of writing. The overlong introduction and postscripts by his relatives may or may not be of interest to the reader who is not "a scholar". For those who love the city, and/or the author, there is much here to savor and some to ignore.
One star for this gem of English literature? Yes, if you are considering the paperback edition with the orange-ish cover with a photo of a walkway by the Seine, BEWARE. "All of the s adnes s of the city came s uddenly with the firs t cold rains of winter . . . . " Even my auto-correct tries to fix this! Hemingway wrote a cozy, wonderful piece for those curious for from what "Midnight in Paris" hails, an insider's flawlessly written account of those heady years when everyone who was anyone was living in Paris. But in this miserably typefaced edition, there is a space after every single "s" in the entire book. There is no publication page (with the date, location of publication, etc). It is not appended with Hemingway's additional musings, as is the hardcover. I purchased this as a gift, thinking a paperback would suffice. Who can read anything published this way? Do NOT purchase it. , FIX THIS.
I am a Hemingway fan, but I put off reading A Moveable Feast until I was 39 year old and vacationing in Paris. I had been told by multiple people over the years that it wasn't a good book; rather, a collection of mostly-real stories about Hemingway's years in Paris during his early 20's.

Three things you should take when traveling in Paris this book, a guidebook, and lots of money. (It's still a good book if you are not in Paris)

Hemingway was newly married and soon a father while living in the Latin Quarter. It's incredible to read about Hemingway's experiences and walk the very streets he wrote about. A number of the Cafes and Restaurants that he frequented are still running, and some of them have the same interior (the post WW1 atmosphere has changed). Hemingway discusses his newfound poverty, which came on suddenly after he quit journalism to write fiction. Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and F Scott Fitzgerald appear in multiple stories. It appears that Hemingway is unsparingly honest about all of them. His portrait of Fitzgerald is particularly poignant - he drinks too much, is a massive problem when he drinks, Zelda is a complete nightmare, and she encourages his drinking. Hemingway figures because she is jealous of his genius.

There are numerous descriptions about Parisian haunts (Sylvia Beach's bookshop, the Seine) foods, and fascinating conversations with French veterans and his little son.