Marci's review
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
Marci's review
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Marci's review
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Parts of this book are beautiful. I will not forget Hemingway's descriptions of hunger, its physical state, and the way it effected his relationship to the city of Paris and to other artists, and how it effected his work, meaning writing. The strongest parts of the book - the reasons to read it - are Hemingway's reflections on his work, especially his vision for the kind of prose he was developing. He writes these passages in the lean, exacting style he describes himself working towards as a young man, the style that ultimately won him a Nobel prize, and at these points, the book is exciting and wonderful to read. He's so young; he doesn't know the rewards ahead; he trusts his instincts; and he works so hard.
It's shocking, then, how often the book disintegrates into a nasty sludge of revelations about people now famous. I don't like Hemingway much after reading this. I can't like someone who could divulge such degenerate details about the lives of people he once called friends. Ironi...more
It's shocking, then, how often the book disintegrates into a nasty sludge of revelations about people now famous. I don't like Hemingway much after reading this. I can't like someone who could divulge such degenerate details about the lives of people he once called friends. Ironi...more
