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A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
The thing about a Hemingway story is the ends hardly disappoint. His pedantic descriptions of scenes and sounds, the types of woodland critters, or the shape of one's nose can be tiresome and dull. But you swim in it, and it takes you. It's clean, and you are only left in it briefly before you enter the body of the tales of his musings. By then, you know what the earth smells like or what the mood he is in before he says he's in such mood, and it's fine with you. So you keep going.
In A Moveable Feast, you're bobbing along 1920s Paris: into spry cafes, dingy apartments with people covered in aperitifs, and two-faced gossip by some of the most influential minds to exist. Hemingway gives you an insight into what it was like to meet these people—an interesting perspective of the legends that perused the rues of those days in such intimate detail. Sometimes, you have to look, but you don't want to, you do because you're already there.
From a historical standpoint, it's excellent perspicuity if you trust the author; from a literary one, it's Hemingway. The classic doldrum is beating into your head then the story winds up and slaps you with something so genuine and beautiful that it moves, humbles, and betters you for your lack of awareness.
In A Moveable Feast, you're bobbing along 1920s Paris: into spry cafes, dingy apartments with people covered in aperitifs, and two-faced gossip by some of the most influential minds to exist. Hemingway gives you an insight into what it was like to meet these people—an interesting perspective of the legends that perused the rues of those days in such intimate detail. Sometimes, you have to look, but you don't want to, you do because you're already there.
From a historical standpoint, it's excellent perspicuity if you trust the author; from a literary one, it's Hemingway. The classic doldrum is beating into your head then the story winds up and slaps you with something so genuine and beautiful that it moves, humbles, and betters you for your lack of awareness.