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A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
We’ll Always Have Paris
Review of a public domain Kindle eBook (2018) of the original Scribner hardcover edition (1964)
I've read A Moveable Feast several times, primarily in my pre-Goodreads days and thus without a review. I did this re-read in preparation for a further reading in my heritage language of Estonian in a rare copy of the 1965 translated edition [b:Pidu sinus eneses|34216035|Pidu sinus eneses|Ernest Hemingway|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1613736289l/34216035._SY75_.jpg|2459084] (Estonian: A Feast Within Yourself) which I was recently gifted. It is probably my favourite Hemingway alongside the short stories.
Aside from being a memoir of his various friendships during the early 1920s in Paris, A Moveable Feast is a regretful telling of his marriage with his first wife Hadley Richardson and its eventual breakup due to a love affair with Pauline Pfeiffer, who later became his second wife.
Pauline Pfeiffer & Ernest Hemingway's grandson Sean Hemingway did a later re-edit of A Moveable Feast which attempted to remove the focus on Hadley Richardson and called it [b:A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition|5966829|A Moveable Feast The Restored Edition|Ernest Hemingway|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347514495l/5966829._SY75_.jpg|2459084] (2009). That version is not my favourite as it loses the proper arc of the story and thus ends on the wrong note. See further on that in the Trivia below.
Aside from some of the anecdotes about the writing of the early stories such as Up in Michigan, Big Two-Hearted River and Out of Season, A Moveable Feast contains what I consider one of the greatest anti-writer's block methods and statements:
I don't know about anyone else, but for me this is the book which turns Paris the city into the legendary Paris of love and imagination.
Related Books
[b:Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast: The Making Of Myth by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin|127947376|Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast The Making Of Myth by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin (1991-06-15)|Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|12691] (1981) by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin. An analysis of the truth or fabrication behind the stories in A Moveable Feast.
[b:Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast: A Study in the Genre of Memoir|9939|Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast A Study in the Genre of Memoir|John J. Botta Jr.|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348269468l/9939._SX50_.jpg|12690] (2003) by John J. Botta Jr. A study of how A Moveable Feast became a precedent in the writing of creative non-fiction memoir.
[b:On Paris|2419069|On Paris|Ernest Hemingway|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328729081l/2419069._SY75_.jpg|2426246] (2010) by Ernest Hemingway. A selection of articles written for the Toronto Star during Hemingway's years in Paris. I reviewed it here.
[b:Stein and Hemingway: The Story of a Turbulent Friendship|12036589|Stein and Hemingway The Story of a Turbulent Friendship|Lyle Larsen|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347367107l/12036589._SX50_.jpg|17003158] (2011) by Lyle Larsen. A retracing of the initial friendship and later enmity between Gertrude Stein and Hemingway.
[b:Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife|11356275|Paris Without End The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife|Gioia Diliberto|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348926122l/11356275._SY75_.jpg|16286302] (1992) by Gioia Diliberto. A biograph of Hadley Richardson and her marriage to Ernest Hemingway.
[b:The Paris Wife|8683812|The Paris Wife|Paula McLain|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320545874l/8683812._SX50_.jpg|13556031] (2011) by Paula McLain. A historical fiction retelling of Hemingway's 1st marriage with Hadley Richardson and their lives in Paris in the 1920s.
Trivia and Links
Hemingway friend A.E. Hotchner criticizes the later “restored edition” by Ernest Hemingway’s grandson Sean Hemingway in an Op-Ed column written for the New York Times which you can read at Don’t touch ‘A Moveable Feast’, from July 19, 2009.
Writer A.E. Hotchner wrote several memoir books about his friendship with Hemingway, especially [b:Papa Hemingway|3942771|Papa Hemingway|A.E. Hotchner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1572799300l/3942771._SY75_.jpg|1259323] and [b:Hemingway in Love: His Own Story|23848572|Hemingway in Love His Own Story|A.E. Hotchner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1426127889l/23848572._SX50_.jpg|43458452].
Besides his friendship with Hemingway, A.E. Hotchner was the friend of actor Paul Newman with whom he created the charity brand Newman's Own. He wrote about his relationship with Newman in [b:Paul and Me: Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman|7640434|Paul and Me Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman|A.E. Hotchner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320510146l/7640434._SY75_.jpg|10169167].
Review of a public domain Kindle eBook (2018) of the original Scribner hardcover edition (1964)
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. - Ernest Hemingway to a friend, 1950 - the Epigraph for A Moveable Feast as provided by the 'friend' [a:A.E. Hotchner|2937536|A.E. Hotchner|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1338860516p2/2937536.jpg].
I've read A Moveable Feast several times, primarily in my pre-Goodreads days and thus without a review. I did this re-read in preparation for a further reading in my heritage language of Estonian in a rare copy of the 1965 translated edition [b:Pidu sinus eneses|34216035|Pidu sinus eneses|Ernest Hemingway|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1613736289l/34216035._SY75_.jpg|2459084] (Estonian: A Feast Within Yourself) which I was recently gifted. It is probably my favourite Hemingway alongside the short stories.
Aside from being a memoir of his various friendships during the early 1920s in Paris, A Moveable Feast is a regretful telling of his marriage with his first wife Hadley Richardson and its eventual breakup due to a love affair with Pauline Pfeiffer, who later became his second wife.
I should have caught the first train from the Gare de l’Est that would take me down to Austria. But the girl I was in love with was in Paris then, and I did not take the first train, or the second or the third. When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
Pauline Pfeiffer & Ernest Hemingway's grandson Sean Hemingway did a later re-edit of A Moveable Feast which attempted to remove the focus on Hadley Richardson and called it [b:A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition|5966829|A Moveable Feast The Restored Edition|Ernest Hemingway|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347514495l/5966829._SY75_.jpg|2459084] (2009). That version is not my favourite as it loses the proper arc of the story and thus ends on the wrong note. See further on that in the Trivia below.
Aside from some of the anecdotes about the writing of the early stories such as Up in Michigan, Big Two-Hearted River and Out of Season, A Moveable Feast contains what I consider one of the greatest anti-writer's block methods and statements:
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say.
I don't know about anyone else, but for me this is the book which turns Paris the city into the legendary Paris of love and imagination.
Related Books
[b:Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast: The Making Of Myth by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin|127947376|Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast The Making Of Myth by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin (1991-06-15)|Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|12691] (1981) by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin. An analysis of the truth or fabrication behind the stories in A Moveable Feast.
[b:Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast: A Study in the Genre of Memoir|9939|Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast A Study in the Genre of Memoir|John J. Botta Jr.|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348269468l/9939._SX50_.jpg|12690] (2003) by John J. Botta Jr. A study of how A Moveable Feast became a precedent in the writing of creative non-fiction memoir.
[b:On Paris|2419069|On Paris|Ernest Hemingway|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328729081l/2419069._SY75_.jpg|2426246] (2010) by Ernest Hemingway. A selection of articles written for the Toronto Star during Hemingway's years in Paris. I reviewed it here.
[b:Stein and Hemingway: The Story of a Turbulent Friendship|12036589|Stein and Hemingway The Story of a Turbulent Friendship|Lyle Larsen|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347367107l/12036589._SX50_.jpg|17003158] (2011) by Lyle Larsen. A retracing of the initial friendship and later enmity between Gertrude Stein and Hemingway.
[b:Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife|11356275|Paris Without End The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife|Gioia Diliberto|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348926122l/11356275._SY75_.jpg|16286302] (1992) by Gioia Diliberto. A biograph of Hadley Richardson and her marriage to Ernest Hemingway.
[b:The Paris Wife|8683812|The Paris Wife|Paula McLain|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320545874l/8683812._SX50_.jpg|13556031] (2011) by Paula McLain. A historical fiction retelling of Hemingway's 1st marriage with Hadley Richardson and their lives in Paris in the 1920s.
Trivia and Links
Hemingway friend A.E. Hotchner criticizes the later “restored edition” by Ernest Hemingway’s grandson Sean Hemingway in an Op-Ed column written for the New York Times which you can read at Don’t touch ‘A Moveable Feast’, from July 19, 2009.
Writer A.E. Hotchner wrote several memoir books about his friendship with Hemingway, especially [b:Papa Hemingway|3942771|Papa Hemingway|A.E. Hotchner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1572799300l/3942771._SY75_.jpg|1259323] and [b:Hemingway in Love: His Own Story|23848572|Hemingway in Love His Own Story|A.E. Hotchner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1426127889l/23848572._SX50_.jpg|43458452].
Besides his friendship with Hemingway, A.E. Hotchner was the friend of actor Paul Newman with whom he created the charity brand Newman's Own. He wrote about his relationship with Newman in [b:Paul and Me: Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman|7640434|Paul and Me Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman|A.E. Hotchner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320510146l/7640434._SY75_.jpg|10169167].