A Moveable Feast

6W, Ernest Hemingway, A Book of the Month Club, 1993 New York

Notes

A Moveable Feast is a memoir by Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1964. It reflects on his early years as a young, struggling writer living in Paris during the 1920s, a period often called the “Lost Generation.”

The book is made up of short, vivid sketches rather than a continuous story. Hemingway describes his friendships and rivalries with figures such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce, as well as his love for Paris itself—its cafés, streets, booksellers, and simple pleasures. Alongside literary gossip, he writes about discipline, hunger, ambition, and what it means to live honestly as an artist.

The title comes from Hemingway’s idea that Paris stays with you wherever you go, like a feast that can be carried through life. The memoir is often read as both a portrait of a legendary artistic era and a guide to Hemingway’s spare, observational style.

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