Henry Avila's Reviews > A Moveable Feast

Memoirs of the young Mr. Ernest Hemingway in Paris during the early 1920s, the so-called Lost Generation because they were annihilated from history, what a change to our humanity....forever their promise will never be lived. A sad testament to our strange world... Endlessly gone...in a pit. Gertrude Stein popularized this term, quite accurate. The author Ernest was a veteran of the mad conflict even wounded and saved in an Italian hospital, the book "A Farewell to Arms " very autobiographical his second novel.



Since millions perished in the vicious recent war of attrition, no glory but plenty of blood, a vast deep ocean ...
The unknown writer seeks fame, praise and probably most importantly money... it's no fun being poor and what 's a better place than this illustrious city of artists, to join the parade. Newly married a wife eight years his senior still beautiful, Hadley a charming lady... the first of four and later wrote his favorite. He struggles however, the fun part is the many giants Hemingway meets, the minors poets, writers and painters the winds of time floats them towards unknown regions. Brutally honest sometimes, Gertrude Stein, her weird manners revealed, the hopeless pathetic drunk F.Scott Fitzgerald and his jealous glamorous wife Zelda, going insane, James Joyce almost blind and likes to drink a little, arrogant Picasso , always kind Ezra Pound before he choose the wrong side in the next war . Sylvia Beach owner of the renowned book store Shakespeare and Company... invariably helps the writers good or bad. By far the most interesting character is F.(Francis) Scott Fitzgerald his constant drunkenness , pitiful talk and gloomy moods. Telling Hemingway he has a reputation of being cruel , heartless and conceited not something Ernest hadn't heard before (I bet) , The Sun Also Rises makes him rich and famous. Having visited Spain with his wife and friends watching bullfighting in the ring as thousands look on , fascinated him. The excruciating contest reminiscent of ancient Rome to others, excited the author 's soul. Wrote his first novel from that experience at 27. For the curious lovers of literature an essential read and drinks for all the readers, you don't want to feel like an outsider...join the wild party while sitting on your couch.