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Original Title: | A Moveable Feast |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Aleister Crowley, Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, Hadley Richardson Hemingway, Blaise Cendrars, Zelda Fitzgerald |
Setting: | Paris(France) |
Ernest Hemingway
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 4.04 | 110608 Users | 7698 Reviews
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Title | : | A Moveable Feast |
Author | : | Ernest Hemingway |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Vintage Classics |
Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
Published | : | September 6th 2012 by Vintage (first published 1964) |
Categories | : | Classics. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Cultural. France |
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Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate, and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy, and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. Written during the last years of Hemingway's life, his memoir is a lively and powerful reflection of his genius that scintillates with the romance of the city.Rating Epithetical Books A Moveable Feast
Ratings: 4.04 From 110608 Users | 7698 ReviewsCrit Epithetical Books A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast is a beautiful book. Gorgeous. The prose is Hemingway-crisp, concise and evocative, but even with the Ezra Pound love fest midway through the book (fascinatingly against the grain in an America predisposed to loathe the poet for his ties to Nazism), A Moveable Feast isnt A Moveable Feast until Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda appear on the scene. Fans of Fitzgeralds probably cringe at Papas descriptions of the Scotts sad debasement. Zelda is a mad bitch; Scott is a drunken man-child;In A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway presents vivid and interesting observations on his days struggling to make it in post WWI Paris. Interacting with other writers described by Gertrude Stein as being members of the lost generation, A Moveable Feast shows a young Hemingway defining himself as a different kind of writer. The connections to The Sun Also Rises are readily apparent. However, Hemingways thoughts about art and his writing are relevant to all his novels and short stories. This is
Charming, ranging, generous, memoir of Paris, stuffed full of memorable lines ("Never Any End to Paris") and packed with the luminaries of the expat era. How weird to read a book where Joyce is just sort of around, where Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas squabble, and where, in an excellent moment, Fitzgerald's face turns into a death mask while drunk. All along, Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley is at once extolled and mourned. I read the Restored Edition, which in some ways I regret,
I started this book calling him Ernest Hemingway. Midway, my friends pointed out that I was referring to him as Hem. By the end, I knew never to refer to him as Ernest. More please...more nonfiction/memoir from Hem, if only it existed (some say there's more that was never published??...)This book was an intimate portrait of Hemingway. I was never a big fan of his fiction: though his simple, deliberate, sentence structuring still leave me in awe, I've never really been a fan of the flow of his
Loved it!Like Hemingway, I love Paris from the bottom of my heart. And like him, I was lucky enough to spend some time there as a 22-year-old university student. I remember the feeling when I got off the train, knowing I had months of P-A-R-I-S ahead, and how precious each minute felt. I remember walking the streets, stopping to gaze into shop windows, to have coffee, or to browse bookstores. And I remember reading all those wonderful authors who had made Paris their home, feeling connected to
I'm heading for Paris on a work related trip in a few weeks so I thought I'd get in the mood by dipping into papa. BIG MISTAKE. I guess you had to be there. This is nothing but a bunch of mundane moments strung together by some boring name dropping and squalid hygiene habits.I've never really been a fan of anything other than Ernie's shorter stories and now I remember why. He didn't write briefly for effect. He did it because he didn't really know enough words. It always sounds like he's peeking
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. I love Ernest Hemingway as a writer, at his best, especially in many of the stories, but in the main novels, too, there is often breathtakingly good writing. Then there are the books, some of them much later, where
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