Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast (first published in 1964)
Many thanks to 21. Század Kiadó for sending me the book!
Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, the city of “wide lawns and narrow minds”. During his adventurous life, he participated as a war correspondent in both World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, and lived in Paris, Spain, Florida, and Cuba. He hunted German submarines in the Caribbean, and for everything in Africa. In 1950, he began writing The Old Man and the Sea, which was finally published in 1952. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954. A beautiful, new edition of his life series is being published by 21. Század Kiadó.
The author lived in Paris between 1921 and 1926, along with other famous, self-destructive members of the „lost generation”. At that time, he began to write short stories, but none of his major works had yet been written. He met Gretrude Stein, admired Cézanne’s paintings, became friends with Scott Fitzgerald, went to horse races, and occasionally took trips to Austria or Spain. All of Paris was his, but he was owned by his pencil and notebook. He lived in poverty with his first wife and their little son, but in happiness. They hardly spent on anything and, in order to save money, the writer sometimes told his family that someone had invited him to lunch, then he walked for two hours in the Luxembourg Gardens and afterwards he told them how delicious he had eaten. They had everything, but they didn’t know what they really needed.
The author only began writing the book in 1957 and it was only published after his death, but it has everything that is characteristic of Hemingway and his great works. It can be read as a series of stand-alone short stories or as a novel, and it captures that fleeting moment we can feel when we almost find complete happiness.
