Helpful Score: 4
Although entertaining, as Hemingway mentions many famous writers and artists from the Left Bank of Paris during the time (Picasso, Stein & Toklas, Fitzgerald & Zelda, Harry & Caresse Crosby, etc.), one must question how much of this has been fabricated. There are a few places where Hemingway contradicts himself and makes others out to seem co-dependent (Fitzgerald and Stein, in particular). However, given all the drinking and partying going on during the time I've read about from other accounts (Man Ray, Colette, Anais Nin), this is probably as accurate as we're going to get. So, for what it is, it's entertaining and full of debauchery - excactly what you'd expect.
Helpful Score: 1
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." (Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast)
Posthumously published memoir of Ernest Hemingway as he reveals the details of his life in Paris as a young man. His exploits with writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald shed light on the group of writers referred to as "The Lost Generation." I am a big fan of Hemingway, so this insight into his life was a real treat.
Posthumously published memoir of Ernest Hemingway as he reveals the details of his life in Paris as a young man. His exploits with writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald shed light on the group of writers referred to as "The Lost Generation." I am a big fan of Hemingway, so this insight into his life was a real treat.
I loved this book, which is pure Hemingway, and vivid descriptions of life in Paris in the 1920's. Famous personages such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford and Gertrude Stein were included in his immediate circle of struggling writers.
gives an interesting view and history of the writers, artists etc. in Paris after WWI especially the English language contingent.
