{"id":123,"date":"2018-08-06T15:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:59:16","slug":"moveable-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/06\/moveable-feast\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway"},"content":{"rendered":"

A memoir with an unusual history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Genre: Memoir
\n\u2b50\ufe0f Stars from Goodreads: 4.04
\n\u2b50\ufe0f Stars from me: 5<\/p>\n

A Moveable Feast<\/em><\/a> has a complicated history. There are two editions, each corrected by relatives from Hemingway\u2019s different marriages. Thus, the first edition<\/a> was published in 1964 by his fourth wife,\u00a0<\/span>Mary Hemingway, who was accused by some scholars of taking parts out of the manuscript. Those were the parts about Hemingway\u2019s first wife Hadley Richardson where he spoke about her kindly and apologized to her. The second edition<\/a> was issued in 2009 by Se\u00e1n Hemingway, Hemingway\u2019s grandson from his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer. Se\u00e1n was blamed for taking out the parts that spoke unkindly about Hemingway\u2019s second wife, Se\u00e1n\u2019s grandmother.<\/p>\n

The chapters also changed places in the book, some added, some merged. The sad thing is, we cannot know what the book would look like had it been published while Hemingway was still alive. Both editions were published posthumously.<\/p>\n

Despite so many manipulations of suspicious motives the book turned out to be the only one carrying Hemingway\u2019s voice so clearly. It\u2019s hard to say if it is the effect of writing in the second person \u201cyou\u201d (as in \u201cyou would notice\u201d, \u201cyou would feel\u201d) or the power of some magic he used but the book really transports you to those times and those places, putting you directly beside Hemingway himself. You go to the same places, you eat in the same cafes, drink a lot of wine together and smell roasted chestnuts in cold Parisian air. You get introduced to the Fitzgeralds. Yes, to both of them, the husband and wife. The wife, apparently, was a very interesting person too. You meet Gertrude Stein<\/a>. You meet all those famous, striking people before they turned into bland black-and-white photos on the covers of their books. You see them as they were in life, or at least the way Hemingway saw them. This is an unforgettable experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know\u201d<\/em> Hemingway said in A Moveable Feast<\/em><\/a>. And it became his truest book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The memoir has an unusual history. There were two editions published by different family members. Although their motivation remains questionable it is still the truest book Hemingway ever wrote. Continue reading A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[153,240,303,381,393,474,500],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/screen-shot-2018-08-06-at-15-53-05-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}