A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
211 pages · Published 1964
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“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
Hemingway wrote this memoir at the end of his life, looking back at Paris in the 1920s when he was young, poor, and learning to write sentences that hit like jabs. The cafés are here — La Closerie des Lilas, the Dôme — along with the cold apartment where he worked and the Luxembourg Gardens where he walked hungry, pretending the paintings in the museum were nourishment enough. Gertrude Stein holds court. Fitzgerald shows up drunk and brilliant. Ezra Pound shadowboxes in his studio. It is a book about becoming a writer, about what it costs, and about a marriage that was happy before it wasn't. Published posthumously, it reads like a love letter written by someone who knows the affair is already over.
