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A Moveable Feast

By Ernest Hemingway

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| Paperback | 9780099909408

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"You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook 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 corresponContinue

"You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook 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 Great 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 completed 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 It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.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 small, 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 testament to the risks and rewards of the writerly life.

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  • A Moveable Feast: The Revised Edition by Ernest Hemingway: review

    Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s suicide, a ghoulish landmark that may prompt reconsideration of the writer but is unlikely to restore the reputation he once had as America’s greatest novelist. His most famous books, A Farew ... (read full critics)

    telegraph.co.uk published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

  • A Moveable Feast By Ernest Hemingway

    “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.” Most people do not realize that the title of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast was not ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  • 2 people find this helpful

    I used to worship him. I thought he was the alpha man, the ultimate "see if I care" wanderer of the universe.
    This book spoke to me in a personal way, more so than his other books.
    A great read.

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    Angel-a said on Sep 22, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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    "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. －－Hemingway, 1950

    如果你夠幸運
    在年輕時待過巴黎
    那麼巴黎將永遠跟著你
    因為巴黎是一席流動的饗宴
    －－海明威, 1950 "

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    信義文學 said on Apr 29, 2007 | Add your feedback

  • (in italiano: Festa mobile, Mondadori)

    Nessun parigino (eccetto Baudelaire) ha mai raccontato Parigi come fece Hemingway in questo suo diario dei primi anni francesi (in italiano è Festa mobile). Come al solito, Hemingway scrive di minime cose quotidiane lasciando intendere dietro ad esse storie che mai nessuno potrà raccontare e, soprat ... (continue)

    Nessun parigino (eccetto Baudelaire) ha mai raccontato Parigi come fece Hemingway in questo suo diario dei primi anni francesi (in italiano è Festa mobile). Come al solito, Hemingway scrive di minime cose quotidiane lasciando intendere dietro ad esse storie che mai nessuno potrà raccontare e, soprattutto, nessuno saprà evocare con uguale intensità. Lo scrittore americano poi non nasconde particolari frustranti e intimi della sua vicenda, come la povertà mordente (favoloso il pezzo in cui preferisce andare a vedere gli Impressionisti al Luxembourg a pancia vuota, perché li si gusta meglio), le maniacali abitudini di scrittura (spesso in cafè parigini divenuti celeberrimi) o gli affascinanti risvolti ma in particolar modo i difetti lampanti di grandi nomi della cultura dell'epoca come Gertrude Stein o Scott Fitzgerald. Mai nessun scrittore è stato sincero nella sua prosa come Hemingway, mai scrittore è stato così pregnante nel descrivere la città più poetica del mondo: "There is never any ending to Paris... Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy."

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    Paolo Armelli said on Feb 18, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • So-So

    This book is mainly a re-collection of his time and encounters while in Paris with his wife during the 1930s. Maybe I am just not a fan of Hemingway - I do not find this book to be very good. Hemingway claims that Paris is like a moveable feast, but I cannot feel he is that passionate about the cit ... (continue)

    This book is mainly a re-collection of his time and encounters while in Paris with his wife during the 1930s. Maybe I am just not a fan of Hemingway - I do not find this book to be very good. Hemingway claims that Paris is like a moveable feast, but I cannot feel he is that passionate about the city.

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    Sibant said on Feb 12, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • I bought this because it was about Paris (I've been slightly obsessed with it lately) and because for some time I've wanted to try Hemingway. Perhaps I need to try something else for this didn't impress me at all. There are certainly writers who write really well with almost no descriptions and wi ... (continue)

    I bought this because it was about Paris (I've been slightly obsessed with it lately) and because for some time I've wanted to try Hemingway. Perhaps I need to try something else for this didn't impress me at all. There are certainly writers who write really well with almost no descriptions and with a very few words but Hemingway (in this case) just wasn't one of those. His writing style is incredibly boring. There was so much potential to write an amazing piece of memoir considering who he hanged out with but now it fell short.

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    s u v i said on Mar 5, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • Picked this up after watching "City of Angels". Eventually, this book ended up on Lei's shelf at S.D.

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    Search Serg said on May 10, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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