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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
this is just like living in bushwick
p.s. f scott fitzgerald has a small pp
p.s. f scott fitzgerald has a small pp
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Was assigned a few years ago in a high school French class (thought that was a weird choice, considering this isn't in French and Hemingway doesn't immediately scream "French culture"), but I only properly got into it this winter break.
It's got some wonderfully startling anecdotes, all told in Hemingway's classic dense, economical prose. I found this harder to read than a lot of his short stories because it assumes you have more background knowledge of his life and the people he's talking about. (I personally knew nothing about Ford Madox Ford going in and little about F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal life.)
This version is called the "restored edition," and to be honest, I found the additional sketches at the end largely uninteresting. If Hemingway himself decided against including them, why put them back? Plus, it feels rather pointless to have an edition--at least for general audiences--where you see multiple drafts of Hemingway's introduction to the book. I can understand why he removed them: they make the unstated magic here seem too literal. Of course biographies and memoirs are partly fiction. Of course memory is fallible and people are biased. (From there you can get into an argument that history is fiction too, though it tries not to be--but that's obviously a tangent.)
It'd be fun to bring this book with me to a future trip to Paris. As someone with aphantasia, descriptions of streets always give me a headache unless accompanied by a clear visual model that can sort me out.
It's got some wonderfully startling anecdotes, all told in Hemingway's classic dense, economical prose. I found this harder to read than a lot of his short stories because it assumes you have more background knowledge of his life and the people he's talking about. (I personally knew nothing about Ford Madox Ford going in and little about F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal life.)
This version is called the "restored edition," and to be honest, I found the additional sketches at the end largely uninteresting. If Hemingway himself decided against including them, why put them back? Plus, it feels rather pointless to have an edition--at least for general audiences--where you see multiple drafts of Hemingway's introduction to the book. I can understand why he removed them: they make the unstated magic here seem too literal. Of course biographies and memoirs are partly fiction. Of course memory is fallible and people are biased. (From there you can get into an argument that history is fiction too, though it tries not to be--but that's obviously a tangent.)
It'd be fun to bring this book with me to a future trip to Paris. As someone with aphantasia, descriptions of streets always give me a headache unless accompanied by a clear visual model that can sort me out.
adventurous
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Not a lengthy book but a enjoyable read. A brief glimpse into the earlier years of a great writer and those he came into contact with. I felt like Hemingway and I were sitting at a table in some cafe in Paris sharing a bottle of wine and he's telling me his story of those early years. I did feel that there was a note in regret at the end, that maybe these times, the times he spent in those early years were not the best years of his life.
the one true sentence is a mannerism but i like well-mannered writers
uf qué divertido es este libro de Hemingway reflexionando sobre su messy girl era en París. y ver que tantas leyendas del arte eran mataos borrachos y muertos de hambre que hablaban de café outfits y de los pitos de las estatuas del Louvre o sea mágico.
reflective
medium-paced
funny
informative
reflective
fast-paced