”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.” Ernest HemingwayHemingway in ParisI hadn’t planned to read this book until I read this great article in the The Atlantic that was publish...
Sincere simplicity. "A Moveable Feast" portrays Hemingway's writing philosophy of the importance of one true sentence perfectly. Every sentence in this book is true and brutally honest; stripped of every embellishment and artistic attempt. It is devastatingly beautiful. In this collection Hemingway ...
I need to be honest, I am not a Hemingway fan.So for me to have finished this book and have actually enjoyed it for the most part, I found to be interesting.I liked his descriptions about Paris. The food he ate there, the people he met, and the insights into his writing habits.I was hoping to learn ...
This was my first foray back into Hemingway after a college professor ruined his short stories for me by insisting that EVERYTHING in them was symbolic of something else, despite Hemingway's own words - "There isn’t any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy...
3.5 stars. I enjoyed the parts where Hemingway explained his writing method. I liked those little glimpses into an author's mind. I did think, though, that the writing felt cold and detached at times. But I loved how Hemingway described 1920s Paris, the sights and scenes, the cafes where he wrote, t...
In this slim volume, originally edited by Hemingway's fourth wife and widow Mary Hemingway and published after his death, Hemingway relates stories from his years in Paris in the 1920s, when he was married to his first wife, Hadley. The narrative features Hemingway's friends and acquaintances, inclu...
If you had any idea how much I hate Hemingway's fiction, you'd know this: Coming from me, three stars is a high rating for this book. He should have written more nonfiction.
As with most memoirs nothing really happens. Of course, the purpose of most memoirs are to act as not only a first hand account of the writer, but of a particular time period, place, or culture. A Moveable Feast takes place in France, probably the most fascinating country in the world, to me at leas...
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