Virginia's review
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Virginia's review
rating:
recommended for: People who think they don't like Hemingway.
status: Read in July, 2007
rating:
recommended for: People who think they don't like Hemingway.
status: Read in July, 2007
I am not an Ernest Hemingway fan. I've read quite a lot of Hemingway, because my father is a fan and the books were all over the house. Most of what he wrote irritates me in a subtle way that's hard to define. His books bother me in the same way that Catcher in the Rye bothers me. Maybe it's the general tone of being put-upon, the hint (and sometimes more than a hint) of a self-pitying whine. Maybe it's the egotistical machismo. At any rate, I never really enjoyed a book by Hemingway until I read A Moveable Feast. It's the only of his works that is suffused with happiness, or at least contentedness. He presents a beautiful image of a Paris that no longer exists, and shows us his own quiet joy in the craft of writing. I will probably never be a Hemingway fan, but this is one of his works that I can read with pleasure.
