Sinse reading the book, The Paris wife I have become more interested in Hemmingway's life. I knew he was in Paris, and I knew about the bull fighting, and his depression, and eventual suicide. I have even visited the cafe in Paris he used to frequent with Fitzgerald. Hem is one of Rob's all time favorite authors. The Paris wife made it all so personal though, I felt I was there with them in Paris.
So I am now reading A moveable feast, to hear Hem's side of the tale. This was written just before he commited suicide when he was 61. I think he was memorizing the special time he had while he was starting out poor. It wasn't published in his life time. His fourh wife decided to put it into print. It is all about his time in Paris with Hadley, his first wife.
From Amazon...............
Paris in the '20s! Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived happily on $5 a day and still had money for drinks at the Closerie des Lilas, skiing in the Alps, and fishing trips to Spain. On every corner and at every café table, there were the most extraordinary people living wonderful lives and telling fantastic stories. Gertrude Stein invited Hemingway to come every afternoon and sip "fragrant, colorless alcohols" and chat admid her great pictures. He taught Ezra Pound how to box, gossiped with James Joyce, caroused with the fatally insecure Scott Fitzgerald (the acid portraits of him and his wife, Zelda, are notorious). Meanwhile, Hemingway invented a new way of writing based on this simple premise: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."
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