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Work InformationA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
  
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  ) AntoninoSegon | Apr 4, 2024 |   ) LyndaWolters1 | Apr 3, 2024 | ) sfj2 | Mar 29, 2024 |  ) JBreedlove | Mar 16, 2024 | OPD: 1964 format: 211-page Hardcover, dated 1964 acquired: 2006 read: Nov 20-24 time reading: 4:40, 1.3 mpp rating: 5 genre/style: Memoir theme: TBR and Hemmingway locations: Paris 1921-1926 about the author: (1899 – 1961, born in Oak Park, Illinois, outside Chicago) An American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and the 1954 Nobel Prize Laureate. This is such a terrific little book. A collection of sketches of his life in 1920's Paris among authors, cafes, his wife and horse racing. Poverty and hunger play a romantic role. The wine and spirits an evocative one, the way they are enjoyed and abused. This is Gertrude Stein's Lost Generation of American writers in Paris. And Hemmingway is in their midst, working with all of them. Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda, Ford Maddox Ford and others a brought to life with a permanence, with affection, humor and brutal critique. The sum affect was magical. It's not a simple memoir. We don't know how much is factual, verse bad memory, vs outright fiction. And it's not nice. Hemmingway is pretty clear he's going to say what he says in a straightforward way, regardless of your feelings, or his own. What comes across is both mean and affectionate. He somehow creates a sense of brutal honesty that somehow comes out wonderful. There is magic whatever he's talking about. But when author's we know come up, it's riveting. It feels so honest. His affection for Fitzgerald feels so moving, that it was only after I finished the book that I realized how terribly he gutted the poor guy's personality. But the gutting was so thoroughly entertaining! This book has come up a lot and reviews have a constant praise about them. So my commentary is just one of many before. I'll add one thing I missed in all those reviews - it's really short and flies by. You can read this on a lazy Sunday and never be bored until you put it down. 2023 https://www.librarything.com/topic/354226#8292413 ( ) dchaikin | Nov 25, 2023 |
 Important note!: this review is of the edition that Hemingway's grandson revised because he didn't like the original's contents. Hotchner argues for ignoring this edition in favor of the original. "The grandson has removed several sections of the book’s final chapter and replaced them with other writing of Hemingway’s that the grandson feels paints his grandma in a more sympathetic light. Ten other chapters that roused the grandson’s displeasure have been relegated to an appendix." "All publishers, Scribner included, are guardians of the books that authors entrust to them. Someone who inherits an author’s copyright is not entitled to amend his work. There is always the possibility that the inheritor could write his own book offering his own corrections. Ernest was very protective of the words he wrote, words that gave the literary world a new style of writing. Surely he has the right to have these words protected against frivolous incursion, like this reworked volume that should be called “A Moveable Book.” I hope the Authors Guild is paying attention."  He is gentle, wistful, and almost nostalgic. One writer friend once described Hemingway to me as "that bully" and in many ways my friend was right. Hemingway had created his own public personae that included a brusque way of conducting himself; of a kind of machismo that would be called out for what it was these days; and an insensitivity to other people that bordered on the cruel. A lot of that 'Grace under pressure" is crap, and in his better moments, Heminway probably knew that. But the stories in A Moveable Feast belie all that. He remembers those days in Paris with a fondness and kindness that is remarkable, considering his usual public displays. Ernest was very protective of the words he wrote, words that gave the literary world a new style of writing. Surely he has the right to have these words protected against frivolous incursion, like this reworked volume that should be called “A Moveable Book.”  For that voice of a shattered Hemingway alone, the new edition of A Moveable Feast is worth taking note of. Otherwise, what I'm calling the "classic" edition is the more coherent narrative. "Though this may seem at first blush a fragmentary book, it is not so. It should be read as a novel, belongs among the author's better works and is, as 'mere writing,' vintage Hemingway." Belongs to Publisher SeriesDelfinserien (353) Gallimard, Folio (465) Keltainen pokkari (29) Lanterne (L 150) — 7 more Is contained inErnest Hemingway Book-of-the-Month-Club Set of 6: A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway Is abridged inIs expanded inDistinctionsNotable Lists
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized. No library descriptions found. |
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