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In a search for cleaner sidewalks an expat looks at pampered
Parisian pooches
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Hemingway.
Here's a few comments on our two favorite
Hemingway books with Paris settings: A
Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises.
We've also looked at a few other Hemingway-related
books, including an excellent guide of literary walks
around the city. And we've found some fun Hemingway in Paris links
too.
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A Moveable Feast
This classic is a must read for every American in Paris
-- especially for those living the expat life. Here you get a wonderful
feel for how our predecessors experienced the city -- with a little bit
of literary embellishment by the master. "This is how Paris was in
the early days when we were very poor and very happy," writes Hemingway.
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A Moveable Feast defined
the legendary Paris of the '20s when it was possible to live
on $5 a day and still go drinking at the corner cafe with
the most extraordinary people who were living wonderful lives
and telling fantastic stories.
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Of course, Hemingway's recollections
about the literary and artistic community of the Left Bank
are full of fabulous detail. Lots of insights not only into
his own adventures, but also those of many other historical
characters who happen to be famous artists and writers: Gertrude
Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce and Scott Fitzgerald are all
there.
Hemingway captured the magic of a
period in this city when it was the center of a thriving creative
community of artistic innovators. He describes his creative
struggles and chronicles the sights, sounds, and tastes of
Paris Perdu.
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in 1964, A Moveable Feast
brilliantly evokes the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity,
and unquenchable enthusiasm that the Left Bank expat community
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The
Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises
is one of our favorite Paris books.
Hemingway's evocative description of an expat life in which
people seemed to work very little and drink very much made
Hemingway's plain declarative sentences famous when it first
appeared in 1926.
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This lean novel established Hemingway
as a literary star, and gave us one of the most enduring portraits
of the Lost Generation.
His simple story of expats weary
of the Paris nightlife who go on a Spanish adventure during
the week-long fiesta in Pamplona has inspired many imitators,
in both style of writing and lifestyle.
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Tracking
Hemingway
Check out this series of articles
from the archives of The Atlantic Unbound
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More Hemingway...
Ernest Hemingway on Writing,
Edited by Larry Phillips.
This book offers a selection of Hemingway's
views and advice on writing and the writing life. Much of
what he had to say remains valid today, and its all still
quite entertaining.
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Walks
in Hemingway's Paris: A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler,
by Noel Riley Fitch
This guide outlines seven unique walks
that let the reader discover some of the out-of-the-way places
that Hemingway immortalized in his writings. We can follow
the author's footsteps from his first day in the city in December
1921, when he settled in the Sixth Arrondissement, to his
last meeting in Paris with Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1957.
Along the way we pass famous (and less famous) cafes we've
come to know through his work. Why not stop in, order a cafe
and re-read the accompanying excerpts from some of his Paris
texts.
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Ernest Hemingway A to Z, by Charles M. Oliver
This "essential" book includes
summaries of all the novels, all the stories, many of his
newspaper and magazine articles and a wealth of biographical
and historical information.
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Other Recommended Hemingway
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine
Stories (Scribner's, 1938)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner's,
1940)
The Hemingway Reader (Scribner's, 1953)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest
Hemingway, The Finca Vigia Edition (Scribner's, 1987)
Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters,
1917-1961 (Scribner's, 1981)
Hemingway, The Paris Years, by Michael
Reynolds (Norton Press, 1999)
The Hemingway Cookbook, by Craig Boreth
(Chicago Review Press, 1998)
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