Jan 4, 2010

A Moveable Feast | A Moveable Feast

At a glance:

Author: Ernest Hemingway
First Published: 1964
Time of Work: 1921–1926
Setting: Paris, France
Principal Characters: Ernest Hemingway, Hadley Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Courage, Writing, Novelists, Reality, Violence, Death or dying, Bulls, Bullfighting or bullfighters, Stoics
Locales: Paris, France

Form and Content

Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast: Sketches of the Author’s Life in Paris in the Twenties is not a chronological account of Hemingway’s years in Paris. Rather, it is a series of sketches in which he discusses his work, depicts scenes from his travels, portrays his contemporaries, and describes Paris and the way of life that defined a generation of writers and artists. Each of the twenty chapters concerns a particular person, place, or incident that stood out in Hemingway’s mind from the perspective of an intervening thirty years. The work...

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A Moveable Feast | A Moveable Feast

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