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Loading... A Moveable Feast (edition 1996)by Ernest Hemingway
Work detailsA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
What can I really say about this book? A very personal account of living in Paris in the 1920's. On one hand you have his dealings with and impressions of such characters as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Ford Maddox Ford, T.S. Eliot, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. On the other hand there is a tender and wistful account of a place, a time, and a girl. The elements are blended together in style so unmistakably Hemingway. This small pocket edition worked perfectly as it is a story best read at a cafe or similar establishment. (  ) EricFitz08 | Apr 27, 2013 |  I liked this book. Hemingway did a good job of writing a series of interesting chapters, each of which had something unique in it. In addition, I enjoyed his well written descriptions. While I have no intention of becoming an artist, this book gave me some insight into the lives of artists. (  ) AJiaIA | Apr 20, 2013 | In a drama filled memoir of his experiences in Paris, Hemingway successfully conveys the struggles and triumphs of an aspiring author. Despite many tension creating scenes - specifically those related to the health of his acquaintance Scott Fitzgerald, a few chapters are long and drawn out often to the extent of boring the reader. Overall though, it is worth reading (and in my opinion, much more entertaining than his more well known novel, "The Old Man and the Sea". ( ) ALevettIA | Apr 19, 2013 | Brilliant. Fitzgerald could create a flawless story, Hemingway could create a flawless sentence. ( ) InDreamsAwake | Apr 5, 2013 | This was an enjoyable read. I'm partial to books about Paris, but it was also interesting to imagine all these old, legendary writers, romping around town. (  ) mawls | Apr 4, 2013 |
 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." "Here is Hemingway at his best. No one has ever written about Paris in the nineteen twenties as well as Hemingway."
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