Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast, Sketches of the Author’s
Life in Paris. Book Club Edition. 1964. Book is in very good condition;
dust jacket is in very good minus condition—jacket shows a few minor repaired
tears, rubbing, and light fraying.
In this late in life memoir, Ernest Hemingway recalls how
glorious poverty was in 1920s Paris. He laments the theft of his first
novel—stolen from the Gare de Lyon—but now understands that it was an
expression of youthful naiveté, so its loss is posterity’s gain. He also
recalls his friendships with Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald, reciting
long ago conversations he had with them verbatim—also posterity’s gain. If
Stein and Fitzgerald come off as human rather than legends, then perhaps that
is also to the benefit of history.
“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.”
--Ernest Hemingway
