A Moveable Feast (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Principal Characters: Ernest Hemingway, Hadley Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Sylvia Beach, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Walsh, Evan Shipman, Jules Pascin, Wyndham Lewis, Ralph Cheever Dunning, Ford Madox Ford
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Courage, Writing, Novelists, Reality, Violence, Death or dying, Bulls, Bullfighting or bullfighters, Stoics
- Locales: Paris, France
Perhaps more than any other writer of the twentieth century, Ernest Hemingway laid bare the violent realities lurking beneath all human experience. His aim from the very beginning was to represent those realities as precisely as he could, never minimizing their destructive potential. Life, he wrote early in his career, was uncompromising. It punished the fine and the foul impartially, taking its own grim time, choosing its own grim methods. The bleak and simple wisdom is given form in the retreat from Caporetto, the wound of Jake Barnes, the wreckage of the old man’s great fish.
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