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A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, a vibrant description of Paris in the Golden Twenties as seen through the eyes of an American expatriate, told through a series of sketches detailing the author’s thoughts, relationships and influences in the French capital. The novel experienced a resurgence of popularity following the Paris attacks of 13 November 2015, as the city’s residents rushed to pay tribute to the victims and their families, and to celebrate the joy of their lives in Paris, the exact opposite of what the terrorists wanted to impose. Hemingway was one of the great authors of his time, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, and has left behind a great legacy, even having a planet named after him.
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Ernest Hemingway
American writer, journalist and war correspondent
Born in Oak Park (Illinois) in 1899Died in Ketchum (Idaho) in 1961Notable works:The Sun Also Rises (1926), novelFor Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), novelThe Old Man and the Sea (1952), novelBorn in Illinois in 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway was a major 20th century American author. Several of his works are now classics, such as The Old Man and the Sea, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He was an adventurer and a traveller, and lived in the United States, Canada, Africa, France, Italy, where he joined the army after 1918, and Spain, where he reported on the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
Hemingway’s novels were very successful and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He was married four times, and narrowly escaped death in 1953 following a plane crash, but his health suffered severely from it. After staying in various hospitals in the early 1960s, he died on 2 July 1961.
A Moveable Feast
A story to celebrate the City of Light
Genre: autobiographical novelReference edition: Hemingway, E. (2010) A Moveable Feast. New York: Simon and Schuster.First edition: 1964Themes: Paris, friendship, love, writing, life’s pleasures, French way of lifePublished posthumously in 1964 by the publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons on the initiative of the author’s last wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway (American journalist, 1908-1986), the book was published in a second edition in 2009, having been revised by Patrick (born in 1928) and Seán Hemingway, the author’s son and grandson respectively. Although presented by the author as a work of fiction, A Moveable Feast has a strong autobiographical dimension, as it is simply an illustration of the joys experienced by Ernest Hemingway in the City of Light in the early 1920s, as well as in Switzerland and Austria. The book is made up of short chapters which each illustrate a relationship or an aspect of Parisian life, in which the author’s joy and nostalgia are apparent.
This love for Paris has a harsh echo in the will of the Parisians to resist terrorism after the attacks of 13 November 2015. Cited by an elderly lady during a widely-shared television interview, A Moveable Feast has set new sales records since.
Summary
The book is structured in 19 main chapters (the body of A Moveable Feast), with two other additional chapters and eight other unpublished chapters.
We have chosen to summarise the content of the work in four main points, each examining certain elements of the various chapters: the many joys experienced by Hemingway in Paris, his friendships with Gertrude Stein (American writer, 1874-1946) and Ezra Pound (American writer, 1885-1972), his misadventures with Francis Scott Fitzgerald (American novelist, 1896-1940) and finally the rare moments in which he felt sadness at living in the capital.
The joys experienced in Paris
Ernest Hemingway, his first wife Hadley Richardson (1891-1979) and their son Jack (nicknamed Bumby, 1923-2000) move to Paris at the beginning of the 1920s. They live there for several happy years, despite their unpredictable income, at least until the author meets another woman to whom the beauty of the city pales in comparison.
