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A Moveable Feast Hardcover - 1996
by Ernest Hemingway
This magnificent autobiographical chronicle of the sights, sounds and tastes of Paris in the 1920s is written from inside the American expatriate, literary community that included Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Ford Maddox Ford. Published posthumously in 1964, this is vintage Hemmingway--the best non-fiction account of the Lost Generation in Paris ever written. photos.
About this book
A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate circle of writers in the 1920s. In addition to painting a picture of Hemingway's time as a struggling young writer, the book also sketches the story of Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley. Published after his death, A Moveable Feast is considered by many to contain some of his best writing.
Summary
"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 It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.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.
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.
First Edition Identification
The first US edition was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1964. The copyright page has "A-3-64 [H] " Scribner's shorthand for 1st printed in March of 1964 in Hardback. Book Club editions have a "W".
The first UK edition was published by Jonathan Cape in 1964. An unclipped first edition 18s net.
Details
- Title A Moveable Feast
- Author Ernest Hemingway
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
- Date 1996-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780684833637 / 0684833638
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.69 x 5.75 x 0.79 in (22.07 x 14.61 x 2.01 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1920's
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: French
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Library of Congress subjects Paris (France) - Intellectual life - 20th, Americans - France - Paris - History - 20th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96030237
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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