Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964,Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast captures what it meantto be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. Acorrespondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway arrived inParis in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and atthe beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape:Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist forms; JamesJoyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin,had just completed Ulysses; Gertude Stein held court at 27rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of ruegénération perdue; and T. S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London.It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished youngwriter gathered the material for his first novel, The Sun AlsoRises, and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.
【作者简介】
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknaming himself "Papa" while still in his 20s, he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his memoir A Moveable Feast. He led a turbulent social life, was married four times and allegedly had multiple extra-marital relationships over many years' time. For a serious writer, he achieved a rare cult-like popularity during his lifetime. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Throughout his life he had four wives. During his later life, Hemingway suffered from increasing physical and mental problems. In July 1961, following an ill-advised premature release from a mental hospital where he'd been treated for severe depression, he committed suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho with a shotgun.
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