Hemingway was always defined by his impatience. And so many of Hemingway’s character traits are defined by the repercussions of having survived those years of war and constant death – particularly his need for “truthful prose,” and his disdain for anyone who sought otherwise. Hovering over Hemingway’s romantic cafés and ateliers is the fresh memory of WWI. But so was the nature of Hemingway’s Paris in the ‘20s: a la vie en rose and “anything goes” kind of town. The two were so in love, and like so many characters in “A Moveable Feast”, you wanted both to slap and to congratulate them for their untethered passion. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were champions of the latter themes, given their tumultuous relationship in the book. Sure, I’d thought of Ernest Hemingway’s classic as a book about the obvious: hunger and gratitude, honesty and unrelenting love. I’d never meditated on “ A Moveable Feast“ ’s relationship with death.
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