Hemingway recalls his poor, hungry early years in 1920s Paris — writing in cafés, sparring with Gertrude Stein and Ford Madox Ford, and watching a reckless, talented Fitzgerald begin to unravel — in a posthumously published memoir of the Lost Generation.
Books mentioned in A Moveable Feast (11)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: “I remember how many times I tried to read War and Peace until I got the Constance Garnett translation.”
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “I chose the Constance Garnett edition of War and Peace, and The Gambler and Other Stories by Dostoevsky.”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even”
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway: “I did the most difficult job of rewriting I have ever done there in the winter of 1925 and 1926, when I had to take the first draft of The Sun Also Rises”
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: “I think it had something to do with the publication of The Waste Land which won the Major the Dial award”
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “I had Crime and Punishment on a trip when we ran out of books down at Schruns, and I couldn't read it again when we had nothing to read.”
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: “I liked Sons and Lovers and The White Peacock”
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal: “Until I read the Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal I had never read of war as it was except in Tolstoi”
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence: “I couldn't read Women in Love”
The Prussian Officer by D. H. Lawrence: “He wrote some very good short stories, one called The Prussian Officer”
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes: “Miss Stein loaned me The Lodger, that marvellous story of Jack the Ripper”
Books that mention A Moveable Feast (8)
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “Mitchell picked up a copy of A Moveable Feast at St. Mark's Bookshop”
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “'the Paris stuff' (as he called it), or A Moveable Feast (as Scribner's called it), which Hemingway had in fact shown to Scribner's in 1959 and then withdrawn for revision”
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine: “Named among books faced out on the shelf”
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens: “outside a patisserie that seems to be quite close to the Rue Mouffetard, praise for which appears on the first page of A Moveable Feast.”
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: “the grim woman two seats ahead, reading A Moveable Feast, isn’t she that Inland Revenue gorgon who gave me such a grilling a few years ago?”
Literary Life: A Second Memoir by Larry McMurtry: “I felt something like Hemingway mentioned feeling in A Moveable Feast, when, in Spain, he wrote two stories in one day.”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “Finally, before we leave the subject of sentences, let's return once more to Hemingway, and to the passage from his memoir.”
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight: “Hemingway himself wrote most of A Moveable Feast while gazing at a statue of Marshal Ney, Napoléon's favorite commander.”