A Moveable Feast

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Gammel, Irene (August 21, 2009). "A Changeable Feast". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved February 16, 2013. A.E. Hotchner alleged, among his other criticisms of the 2009 edition, that Seán Hemingway had edited it, in part, to exclude references to his grandmother (Hemingway's second wife Pauline Pfeiffer) that he found less than flattering. [2] As Hotchner's over-all assessment of the 2009 edition, he wrote:

Hotchner, A.E. (July 19, 2009). "Don't Touch 'A Movable Feast' ". The New York Times . Retrieved November 22, 2011. During their time in Paris, the Hemingways became acquainted with other ex-pats living in the city. Composing the famous "Lost Generation," these artists, including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Picasso and James Joyce, became central to Hemingway's growth as a writer. After returning home to the US, he got a job as a journalist at the Toronto Star. Around the same time, he met his future wife, Hadley. A couple got married and moved to Paris. In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway writes about his life in Paris. In his stand-up performances in the late 1960s, Woody Allen performed a routine wherein he riffed the feel of the then recently published book while describing imaginary times spent with Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and Gertrude Stein with the repeated punch line: "And Hemingway punched me in the mouth." [18]At the heart of "A Moveable Feast" lies Hemingway's deep appreciation for the city that nurtured this creative spirit. Paris itself becomes a character, painted in vivid strokes as he walks its cobblestone streets and navigates its neighbourhoods. Through his eyes, the reader experiences the city's contrasts: the tranquillity of the Seine's banks juxtaposed against the bustling life of the Left Bank's cafés. Hemingway's prose conjures the scents of fresh bread, the laughter of artists, long nights drinking and the indelible allure of Montmartre. A Moveable Feast is a memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling young expatriate journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920's.

The Café des Amateurs was the cesspool of the rue Mouffetard, that wonderful narrow crowded market street which led into the Place Contrescarpe. The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night. In the summer time, with all windows open, we would hear the pumping and the odor was very strong. The tank wagons were painted brown and saffron color and in the moonlight when they worked the rue Cardinal Lemoine their wheeled, horse-drawn cylinders looked like Braque paintings. No one emptied the Café des Amateurs though, and its yellowed poster stating the terms and penalties of the law against public drunkenness was as flyblown and disregarded as its clients were constant and ill-smelling.The Cafe des Amateurs was the cesspool of the Rue Mouffetard, that wonderful narrow crowded market street which led into the Place Contrescarpe.” Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published.