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19. A Moveable Feast.
You got very hungry when you did not eat enough in Paris because all the
bakery shops had such good things in the windows and people ate outside at
tables on the sidewalk so that you saw and smelled the food. When you had
given up journalism and were writing nothing that anyone in America would buy
[...] you could always go into the Luxembourg Museum and all the paintings
were sharpened and clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow-hungry. I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he
made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when
he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat.
It was one of those unsound but illuminating thoughts you have when you have
been sleepless or hungry. Later I thought Cézanne was probably hungry in a
different way.
A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway’s memoir
of being a young and often hungry writer surrounded by the writers, artists,
and waiters of 1920s Paris. He reminisces about Gertrude Stein, James Joyce,
and F. Scott Fitzgerald—but also about a really fine meal of pommes à l’huile
and a cold glass of beer. As his first wife (the book begins with them as
newlyweds and ends with them on the precipice of divorce), Hadley, observes:
“Memory is hunger.”
Show Notes.
A Moveable Feast. [Out of copyright in some
countries, where it’s available on
archive.org.
Bookshop.]
The re-edited 2009 version.
The person who reunited Hemingway with his diaries does not like the new
version.
Our episode on Gertrude Stein’s Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas.
Shakespeare and Company.
Paula McClain: The Paris Wife.
Playwright Tom Stoppard’s Reflections on Ernest
Hemingway.
Our next book is M.F.K. Fisher: How to Cook a Wolf.
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and help
make this show possible. Thanks!
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You got very hungry when you did not eat enough in Paris because all the
bakery shops had such good things in the windows and people ate outside at
tables on the sidewalk so that you saw and smelled the food. When you had
given up journalism and were writing nothing that anyone in America would buy
[...] you could always go into the Luxembourg Museum and all the paintings
were sharpened and clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow-hungry. I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he
made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when
he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat.
It was one of those unsound but illuminating thoughts you have when you have
been sleepless or hungry. Later I thought Cézanne was probably hungry in a
different way.
A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway’s memoir
of being a young and often hungry writer surrounded by the writers, artists,
and waiters of 1920s Paris. He reminisces about Gertrude Stein, James Joyce,
and F. Scott Fitzgerald—but also about a really fine meal of pommes à l’huile
and a cold glass of beer. As his first wife (the book begins with them as
newlyweds and ends with them on the precipice of divorce), Hadley, observes:
“Memory is hunger.”
Show Notes.
A Moveable Feast. [Out of copyright in some
countries, where it’s available on
archive.org.
Bookshop.]
The re-edited 2009 version.
The person who reunited Hemingway with his diaries does not like the new
version.
Our episode on Gertrude Stein’s Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas.
Shakespeare and Company.
Paula McClain: The Paris Wife.
Playwright Tom Stoppard’s Reflections on Ernest
Hemingway.
Our next book is M.F.K. Fisher: How to Cook a Wolf.
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and help
make this show possible. Thanks!
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