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    A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
    A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
    A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
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    A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

    Written by Ernest Hemingway

    Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd

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    Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.

    Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published.

    Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, editor of this edition, the book also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son, Jack, and his first wife Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of literary luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford, and insightful recollections of Hemingway’s own early experiments with his craft.

    Widely celebrated and debated by critics and readers everywhere, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 14, 2009
    ISBN9780743598187
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    Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His novels include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, he died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.

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    • 4/5
      A good read if you are a Hemingway fan (I am). Tells much about his efforts on learning how to write in Paris (early years). Also some interesting stuff about what F. Scott Fitzgerald was like and other famous authors and artists. Paris in the 30’s, now I can imagine clearly.
    • 5/5
      Will rate this after a re-read of the classic version (possibly back to back with a re-read of this version depending on the time-table). Oh- seems like it is already rated by me. It is not differentiating between this edition and the classic one.
    • 2/5
      Joy's review: Hemmingway's memories of his time in Paris in the 20's. A self-indulgent, poorly written book (yes, I really wrote that). Obviously there are flashes of great writing, but he really should have stuck to fiction. Worthwhile if you're on the way to Paris and a big Hemmingway fan or you're into the 1920's, but otherwise, don't bother.
    • 5/5
      I have never really read Hemingway before. At least not that I remember enjoying as much as I liked this book. His ability to turn a phrase, his brevity, his lack of adjectives.....I read this paying attention and fully engaged. The image in my head of Hem and wast he was what he represented was way off the mark. Of course I know he more than likely showed us the best of Hem. I have decided to read some classic literature. Hemingway was on the list, not this particular book, and I may give another of his novels a try. This is the second classic, and once again a 5 star.
    • 5/5
      This is a must read for anyone who has read Hemmingway.
    • 3/5
      Hemingway is not one of my favorite authors, but in this book his description of Paris in the 20s is wonderful. He plays around with some of the facts, but captures a time and a place in history that fascinates me. Paris was the center of the world then and so much that was groundbreaking was happening there in the way of music (jazz), painting (cubism), and writing. Hemingway shows us his take on this magical time.
    • 2/5
      Vooral documentair interessant, over zijn verblijf in Parijs in de jaren 20. Duidelijk verfraaid. Soms ontluisterend over collegaschrijvers.
    • 4/5
      I really admire Hemingway's ability to tell it how it is without giving us pages of description. The stories come across as more real, more true to life even though they took place almost a century ago. Much of what was true then is true now, especially when it comes down to the character of a person. I don't think that the additions to the end of this particular version are of any special worth other than to show he was a writer dedicated to perfecting his craft- don't we know this already? I also think that, had I not known of some of the characters and the general life of Hemingway in Paris, this would have been confusing. It means more knowing the background of his story, whether its fictionalised or not. That said, I enjoyed the book thoroughly and enjoyed the view of 1920's Paris it provided me.
    • 3/5
      I'm not entirely sure what I think of this book. It's basically a series of essays about Hemingway's early years in Paris, but there's not much of a connection between most of them, and they're not all necessarily in chronological order. But given that I read the book while in Paris, it was enjoyable to read about streets and quarters that I've been in.
    • 1/5
      Ernest Hemingway talks about many topics in his atrocious book A Moveable Feast. He covers his dislike of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a person. Skiing in Austria with his young son Bumby and his wife Hadley. His friendship with Ezra Pound. His acquaintanceship with Miss Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice P. Tolkas. It talks about his writing and how hard it can be sometimes to get time to write. This book includes unfinished sketches he had written and placed them in the back of the book.His friendship with Fitzgerald was a rocky one in that Fitzgerald was friendlier to him then he was to Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was an alcoholic. Not that Hemingway likely was one too. They were just different kinds of alcoholics. Fitzgerald was bright and brassy until everything wasn't type of alcoholic. Hemingway was the calm and quiet drink your troubles away type of alcoholic. Hemingway liked The Great Gatsby and saw talent in Fitzgerald if only he could get his act together. But he hated his short stories. Which I can't believe because I've read Fitzgerald's short stories and they're brilliant. Yes. Confession time. I'm more of a Fitzgerald person than a Hemingway person. I've never liked Hemingway and only read this book for my book club.His relationship with Miss Gertrude Stein was an interesting one considering Hemingway's machoness wouldn't allow for gays to exist. He even says so in a conversation they have that he keeps a knife on him for the purpose of killing any gay man that comes on to him. What surprised me was Stein's response in that "the act male homosexuals commit is ugly and repugnant and afterwards they are disgusted with themselves. They drink, take drugs, to palliate this, but they are disgusted with the act and they are always changing partners and cannot be really happy." But that women do nothing disgusting between themselves and therefore happy and healthy. It's hard to believe that a gay person would believe this of another gay person. I honestly hated this book. Though it was interesting to read about how they went skiing back then. There were no ski lifts so you had to walk up the mountain to the top to ski down it which was dangerous. It was mostly filled with Hemingway's usual style of macho bullshit which I cannot abide. This wasn't so much a book about his time in Paris in the twenties as a "look at how great I am" vignettes. And the last one was the worst because he blames the breakup of his marriage on his third wife when it was likely his fault. I give this book one star out of five.Quotes“Is Ezra a gentleman?” I asked. “Of course not,” Ford said. “He’s an American.”-Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast p 78)They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokikes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a lighter grade of manure.-Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast p 86)
    • 3/5
      “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”My third Jazz Age January pick is A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. After my reviews of The Paris Wife and The Sun Also Rises published, I had more than a few people recommend A Moveable Feast to me.A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway is in short story form, sharing anecdotes that cover his early years in Paris. There are tales of Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and of more drinking partners than I can probably name!I believe that a huge part of the appeal to this book is his closeness with other famous writers. I know that it’s something that kept me interested in the stories.My favorite story is called Birth of a New School, where Hemingway is writing at “his” cafe, a cafe that’s kind of off the beaten path for his group of friends, when an acquaintance starts talking to him and won’t leave him alone. It’s a really witty tale, and I think it shows how Hemingway wants to have things go his way all the time.I also loved Hemingway’s talk of books. There was a rental library where he had to pay a subscription in order to check out books. It’s like the public library, but charges a fee, which is kind of cool.For the full review, visit Love at First Book
    • 5/5
      I was 19, on a study abroad in Paris and my English Lit teacher assigned this book as part of his curriculum on the Lost Generation. What better place to read this love letter to Paris cum tome to past mistakes? In this book Hemingway teaches us how to write, what it feels like to experience simplicity and how regret creates longing. I aching love this book more than I can say. That cold spring, sat in my warm dorm room overlooking Parc Montsouris I feel in love with reading. At the end, Hemingway reflects that Pairs is a moveable feast that he carried with him for the rest of his days. I re-read this book as a souvenir of Paris; the seemingly contrived, wistful melancholy of the city is more than artistic fabrication - life transformation happens here because it is allowed to. Hemingway's rendition of Paris is a sensibly accurate explanation of the city and one's reactions within it: the habits, the romance, the opportunities and the willing sacrifices. So, for me it is my moveable feast.
    • 5/5
      "A Moveable Feast" is Hemingway’s final attempt to mold his public persona, but he was hardly the first American author to use fiction as a vehicle for wealth, notoriety, and the construction of a macho public image. As a child of the early 20th century, it is difficult to imagine young Hemingway not being aware of the works of Jack London, a product of a difficult childhood who made his name writing about vigorous, dangerous outdoor life, military action, and sports like boxing. The public persona wasn’t always effective-- President Theodore Roosevelt, another larger-than-life macho contemporary, assailed London as a “nature faker”—but provided a template for the next generation of manly writers, of which Hemingway was the king. Hemingway’s took the mantel to new heights, most notably his achievement of the Nobel Prize, but, with the exception of his time in Paris, largely followed the Jack London path, albeit with the addition of sport hunting and deep sea fishing to the genre. The earlier author’s attempt at memoir was the 1914 "John Barleycorn," which covered virtually all of his life in the first person and identified alcohol and intellectualism as the causes of his bad behavior and downfall. Hemingway’s entry was "A Moveable Feast," which, despite having 20 more years of life and two more marriages than London had enjoyed, focused on Paris while only touching on his failures as a husband, father, and friend. The bulk of the story in "Feast" concerns Hemingway, wife Hadley, and friends as innocent and comely starving bohemians. There is never the slightest hint of marital strife, even though the narrator briefly mentions during the book that the marriage was fated to end in short order. The oblique tension of a story like Hills Like White Elephants, which was published during the time period Hemingway recalls in Feast, is completely absent from their poor, but putatively happy domestic life. They have a son, Bumby, but he makes few appearances across the narrative, and shares billing with the cat F. Puss, who Hemingway describes as Bumby’s babysitter, a startling revelation that is presented in a light-hearted way that doesn’t suggest child neglect. “There were people who said it was dangerous to leave a cat with a baby,” but no harm ever came to either, so it was perfectly fine to do this." Hemingway himself spends little time at home in the book, however, preferring travel to Italy, Spain, and Austria (though he and his young family were broke and subject to going hungry) and to write and hobnob in Parisian cafes. Hemingway was, of course, always the better man in these encounters with individuals some would consider his literary superiors: Ford Maddox Ford was far more arrogant and self-deluded than him, for instance. Fitzgerald was not only a far more pathetic drunk, but had been with only one woman, his wife, who felt that his anatomy was inadequate, two problems narrator Hemingway by implication never had. To boot, he vigorously shoots down Gertrude Stein’s accepting talk of male homosexuals, and essentially breaks with her when her own homosexuality is revealed. Hemingway is stalwart, though: When Pascin offers one of his nubile models to him as a sex partner, the married narrator gallantly declines, and does so with charm. The infidelity that ultimately ruined the marriage was in fact not his fault, but that of, “another rich using the oldest trick there is. It is that an unmarried young woman becomes the temporary best friend of another young woman who is married, goes to live with the husband and wife and then unknowingly, innocently and unrelentingly sets out to marry the husband.”Narrators are virtually always a vicarious stand-in for the reader, but Hemingway made sure of the reader’s sympathy by occasionally shifting into the second person. Significantly, virtually everyone mentioned in Feast save Hadley and Bumby were dead by the time "Feast" was written.
    • 5/5
      I have read it (the originally published edited edition) and referred back to it several times during the course of my ongoing education as a writer.If you access the Amazon edition you will find two scanned manuscript pages labeled 3 & 4. Those two pages contain the best advice I have ever received as a writer. First, stop while you still have something to say, second, don't think about what you wrote, let your subconscious "work on it" until the next day.Also, you will find Hemingway's famous dictum to "write one true sentence". There is more wisdom contained in those two pages than in all the other books about writing combined.I printed out the pages. Don't you just love the digital universe?
    • 4/5
      A glimpse of Paris in the 20s and the lives of Hemingway and his contemporaries. I love the immediacy of Hemingway and this book transports you to a very specific time in his story. I enjoyed it.
    • 4/5
      After rereading The Paris Wife I decided it would be interesting to read Hemingway's account of the same period in his life. A Moveable Feast was one of the first books he wrote but it wasn't published until after his death. Because he wasn't quite through with it, it has been published in different versions with each editor making different choices of what to include from his notes and drafts. I read a version which was edited by his grandson, Sean Hemingway which claims to be "the original manuscript as the author intended it to be published".The book reads much like a collection of short stories with each chapter presenting a discrete event, most of which are very recognizable from The Paris Wife. Before I read Paris Wife, I knew very little about Hemingway beyond a thumbnail sketch of where he had lived, his love of fishing and his involvement in WWI and the Spanish Civil War. After my first read of Paris Wife, I really disliked him for his treatment of his wife, his alcohol abuse (which seems to have been the norm with artists in Paris in the 1920's) and his aparent shallowness. I saw more depth in his character on my second pass through Paris Wife and in Moveable Feast I finally came to rather like him. One of my favorite chapters is "THe Education of Mr. Bumby". In it his son Jack (nicknamed Bumby) is portrayed as a very precocious little boy. His age isn't specified but since Hemingway and Hadley were only together for five years, Jack can't have been more than about three. The following conversation takes place when Hemingway and Bumby are on their way to meet F. Scott Fitzgerald:(Bumby) "Will he be drinking so much?"(Hemingway) "No. He said we would not be drinking."(Bumby) "I will make an example."That afternoon when Scott and I met with Bumby at a neutral cafe Scott was not drinking and we each ordered a bottle of mineral water."For me a demi-blonde," Bumby said."Do you allow that child to drink beer?" Scott asked."Touton says that a little beer does no harm to a boy of my age," Bumby said. "But make it a ballon."A ballon was only a half glass of beer.....The talk was far over Bumby's head but he listened attentively and afterwards when we had talked of other things and Scott had left, full of mineral water and the resolve to write well and truly, I asked Bumby why he had ordered a beer. "Touton says that a man should first learn to control himself," he said. "I thought I could make an example."
    • 4/5
      His classic "memoir" of the early writing days in Paris - engrossing and at times bitchy account of his contemporaries in the literary world of Paris in the 1920s.
    • 5/5
      "Limned in acid" is how one biographer described Hemingway's last and maybe best book, and indeed it is. Yet A Moveable Feast also captures Hemingway's extraordinary sensitivity to his internal and external environment, his fine sense of humor, and his authentic love for his first wife Hadley.
    • 5/5
      This book, when I first it, really startled me with the sincerity of its author. Hemingway tells a lot about his craft, technique and psychology. I have not seen this level of opennes and straightforwardness in many of modern American writers whose works are still being read today.
    • 3/5
      3.5 really, I couldn't go the whole four. I listened to the audio version of the restored edition, and the narration was out of this world. The type of narration that lifts a story up. There are a number of fragments at the end, from his historical collection, and I have to say that audio is perhaps not the best venue for really soaking this sort of thing up. One of things noted about this restored edition is that it did not flow chronologically, which did in fact end up a little confusing, but that is not a major issue.

      I am keeping this book - I keep only a fraction of the books I read, that is notable. There were a number of parts of this memoir/work of fiction (in his words), that I really enjoyed. I loved hearing about their winters in Schroontz, which I am entirely sure I have misspelled, but hey, I never saw it in writing. And I absolutely adore the dialogue. There is something unique about his dialogue, and between his words and this narration, it was just outstanding. Some of the things that were really small were amazing to ponder, such as leaving their baby son home alone in the crib with the cat as a babysitter

      His writing about Scott Fitzgerald was sadly distressing. I will follow up soon by reading Z, about Zelda, as it also fits in my challenge.

      If you like Hemingway, this is worth your while. If you don't already care for him, this probably won't, change your mind.
    • 5/5
      A beautiful glimpse into a moment, a place, which will never be repeated. Sure, Hemingway is delusional, and unable or unwilling to grasp his responsibility for everything, but that doesn't make the story less.
    • 4/5
      I fell in love with this book—which was at the time my first experience of Hemingway—when I read it a few years ago, and was very much looking forward to this new edition. Hemingway's grandson Seán Hemingway oversaw this project, and in his introduction he explains that Hemingway was continually making changes and adjustments to his text up until the end of his life, sometimes reverting to previous versions, and that he had not written a satisfactory introduction, nor a last chapter, nor found titles for the individual stories or for the book itself, these having been chosen by the editor at Sribner's before the original 1964 publication. Here the stories are presented in a different order and with Hemingway's last changes to the text taken into consideration, and best of all, we find sketches of unfinished stories which he wrote as material for the book, which of course had never been published before.I especially loved the stories about his contemporaries such a Ford Maddox Ford and F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as Gertrude Stein, among many of the people referred to whom he doesn't hesitate to poke fun at. Though one senses that there is a sense of longing for what may have been simpler times for him, or at least, more youthful ones, there is a dry sense of humour throughout which gives an impression of lightheartedness even when he broaches difficult topics. The first time I read this book, I had no idea what he was talking about half the time, but was so enamoured with his famously pared down style that it didn't matter to me. This time around, maybe I was trying to find meaning too hard, which proved slightly less satisfying. I have many more books of his still to read and I'm sure that once I've read those, as well as other works by his peers, along with various other fiction and non-fiction books about the times, I'll come back to this book again and again with renewed appreciation.
    • 4/5
      A must read after reading The Paris Wife :D
    • 3/5
      Overrated. Some call it his best. In my opinion is isn't even near his best.
    • 5/5
      A Moveable Feast is non-fiction, an account of Hemingway's years in Paris, young and poor, with his wife Hadley, his infant son, John, nicknamed Bumby, and their cat, F Puss. It's eminently readable, broken into mostly short chapters, where you are introduced to and are privy to some of the conversations he had with Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Sylvia Beach, and others. You also drink with him at various bars and cafes, join him on a ski trip to Austria, stroll along the Seine with him where he knew and admired many of the fishermen and book sellers, learn about his writing habits, experience some of his thoughts. He wrote the book in his late 50s, near the end of his life by suicide, before he lost the ability to write. You'd think he had a remarkable memory, but in fact he kept notes and used these to shape the book, which Hemingway tells you in the introduction you can consider fiction if you wish. There is a vast love of Paris contained in these pages, and of the life he had once led before he divorced his first wife whom he seemed to adore. Along with this love there is an unmistakable sorrow, that of an old man reminiscing about a distant and longed for past when you were young and had all the world to live for.
    • 4/5
      I have to say I enjoyed this book more than his fiction.
    • 5/5
      Apart from an abortive attempt at "The Old Man and the Sea" in high school, I managed to avoid Hemmingway for fifty years. Now I wonder why. "A Moveable Feast" is so enchanting, so fascinating with its tart, funny, incisive portraits of Stein, Pound, Fitzgerald and others that I feel sad to have missed it for so long.Why Hemmingway took so long to write this memoir is anyone's guess, but perhaps the older writer understood things the younger one only lived. Whatever the reason, AMF is a wonderful mixture of the perspective of age and the enthusiasm of youth. It's a lovely portrait of a city where people too poor to own a cat can afford a cook and a nurse for their son. It's a tale of a writer writing, reading everything he can borrow from Shakespeare and Company, getting to know artists and authors and loving Paris and Parisians. If you read no other Hemmingway in your life, read this.
    • 5/5
      I decided to read this after finishing The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein. It was amazing how different the two accounts are of the same time, place, and people. I have to say Hemingway is simply brilliant. He made me want to eat oysters even though I know I hate oysters. Every description made me feel I was there, though he clearly doesn't make a point of being descriptive. There's no real plot to the book; it's more like a series of vignettes, a travelogue almost. So, you won't be dying to find out what happens, but if you're at all interested in Paris in the 20s and writers' lives, you should read this.
    • 4/5
      I had never read Hemingway before so thought a small book would be something to try and see if I enjoyed it.Turns out I picked an Auto-biography of his time in the 20's in Paris where he was starting out as an unknown. You get the atmosphere on Paris in the 20's and the cliques that existed of the in crowd and the writers and the painters. You see that even then distractions existed for the famous but, as was life, were simpler than those of today.No laptops to write with just pen and paper and the local cafe to sit in Hemingway paints the picture of a Paris which once it has you will not let you go. And people who are interesting but have something held back that keeps you wondering.As well as learning about his life in those early years it is a book from which you can pick up his style of writing. And I can say now it will lead me to read more.
    • 5/5
      Those who have not seen the elephant and lack the courage to go looking for it have no right to criticize Ernest Hemingway, who set out as a young man to find the elephant and get a good long look at the Beast, and then describe it for the rest of us. As a young man he did not yet realize that few people are as brave and as honest as he.He went. He saw. He wrote. He told us all about it -- and scarcely anyone believes him. Those who don't tell the few who do that Papa was a fool and a bad man. So it is in life as it was in "The Old Man and the Sea." Now that the big fish is dead, the little ones come to gnaw on his corpse.Nobody with anything to lose has a friend in this world. The person who has nothing may find one. Papa knew.'A Moveable Feast' is for stargazers everywhere. If you're one of those who dotes on famous people and if, in particular, you dote on members of 'The Lost Generation,' this is the book for you because it shows you what your heroes look like in their underwear.Fans of Ernest will love 'A Moveable Feast.' Fans of Scott and Zelda may hate it. Fans of Gertrude will - - - - Well there's no telling how they'll feel about it, which was always a problem, even for poor old Gert. The only character in the whole set who gets away clean is the lady owns the bookstore and binds up busted heads. Highly recommended.