5/11/2023 0 Comments A moveable feast book![]() ![]() And of course there's Hemingway on his wife Hadley, and Hemingway on Hemingway. The best passages are the descriptive ones- fine writing with all the supple surety of Sun- of bookstalls, cafes, streets, the Seine, race tracks, and travel. Pound, Ford, Eliot, Lewis and Joyce are around and they are treated with affection, or affectionate malice. Miss Stein is also victimized, and there are allusions to puzzling perversities. Not only is the Fitzgerald portrait ungenerous, but the disclosures of his sexual difficulties with Zelda are embarrassing. What also comes to light is the "inside story," or the very personal revelations, parts of whicy may become a cause scandale. ![]() ![]() This is a memoir of his expatriate days in the twenties, and MacLeish's little poem about the young man with the panther good looks who whittled a style for his times in the sawmill attic in Paris comes to life here. What we've all been awaiting: the first of Hemingway's posthumous works he began in 1958 and finished in 1960. ![]()
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