![]() ![]() When I read Paris est une fête, I expect to read about partying in the French capital. So, A Moveable Feast is Hemingway’s Rememberance of Things Past and the French title betrays that intention. An experience first fixed in time and space or a condition like happiness or love could be afterward moved or carried with you wherever you went in space and time. In the foreword, Patrick Hemingway explains the title as meaning a memory or even a state of being that had become a part of you, a thing that you could have always with you, no matter where you went or how you lived forever after, that you could never lose. ![]() Literally, a moveable feast is a feast in the Christian calendar that changes of day every year, like Easter. The second book of the month for our Book Club was A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. ![]() Even if the one has been tampered with and the other does not exist. This book contains material from the remises of my memory and of my heart. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 1964 French title: Paris est une fête. ![]()
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