“A Movable Feast” by Ernest Hemingway
This is Hemingway’s memoir about the time when he lived in Paris, a period “when we were extremely impoverished and extremely happy.”
It is about his writing habit, his many strolls around the neighbourhood, the roads that he walk pass every day, the cafes that he frequented, the library and bookstore where he often borrow books from.
It is also filled with stories such as how he pick up the betting habits on horse races, and plenty more tales from the expat scene that live in that particular place in that particular era between World War 1 and World War 2, which include fellow writers and artists such as Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, and more of the so-called “Lost Generation.” It is the real-life scenes of what would become the prelude of his fictitious first novel “The Sun Also Rises.”
But perhaps above all, this book is about the romanticised Paris. The Luxembourg Garden, Cafe de Flore, Les Deux Magots, his daily lives with his first wife Hadley Richardson, and the environment that facilitated Hemingway’s first big break as a writer.
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