Feasting on Hemingway

Whether you love or loathe Ernest Hemingway's work, (you're either one or the other) this is one piece of work that truly brings you the man who made less better. In A Movable Feast, postumously published after his suicide, Hemingway allows his reader to glimpse into his life as a struggling writer. This biographical novel takes us into Papa's accounts of friends, trends and attitudes that were prevailent in Paris during the 1930's.

Starting out as a struggling journalist, we learn from Hemingway his techniques, his secrets, his mistakes and all else that contributed to him becoming the master of literature that he was and still is. For the avid Hemingway fan or aspiring writer, we can all learn about what the attraction was for the artists and writers that were truly alive in the French city of inspiration. Hemingway invites us to sit at his table when he first meets F. Scott Fitzgerald for the first time. We meet Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and so many other masters of the time. Hemingway gives us his techniques, his trials, his triumphs, his fears, his joys...all the processes that go into becoming a successful writer. We get to be a fly on the cafe table that sits in Paris back in the 30's thanks to Hemingway's wonderfully written memoirs.

Personally, I can appreciate Hemingway's style, I can enjoy his quiet humor, I can paint the pictures with the few paints he supplies. If you can agree with those 3 points then you too will enjoy A Movable Feast.