A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway · 1964
Published posthumously, Hemingway's recollection of his Paris years in the 1920s — the cafés, Stein's salon, Fitzgerald drunk in the rain — is the late-period prose he is most loved for. It is also a quiet act of revenge against several friends. Both things can be true.
The case against
Hemingway settles scores from beyond the grave: Fitzgerald gets his manhood mocked, Stein gets condescension, Ford Madox Ford gets pure contempt. The poverty is a pose; Hadley's trust fund paid the café tabs. His widow assembled the manuscript after his death, and a later edition rearranged it again. You are reading a beautiful, unreliable act of curation.
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