A Moveable Feast (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1964
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Courage, Writing, Novelists, Reality, Violence, Death or dying, Bulls, Bullfighting or bullfighters, Stoics
- Locales: Paris, France
The Work
“This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy,” writes Ernest Hemingway of the years between 1921 and 1926 when, as a struggling young writer, he lived in Paris with his first wife, Hadley, and their son, Bumby. A Moveable Feast, a collection of twenty essays published after Hemingway’s death, captures the moods of a city.
Having quit his job as a journalist, Hemingway lived in an apartment overlooking a sawmill. Selling only a few stories and living on very little money, he skimped on firewood, wore sweatshirts as...
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