![]() 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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