海明威| A Moveable Feast 流動的盛宴

A Moveable Feast chronicles an early stage in Hemingway’s career as a writer, highlighting how his life in the creative and intellectual community of Paris helped shape the development of his craft. The act of writing features prominently in the book, with many scenes of Hemingway inventing and revising stories, writing in cafés, and receiving constructive criticism from his peers. The book can thus be thought of as a metanarrative, meaning that Hemingway draws attention to the process of storytelling within the story itself. At several points Hemingway mentions parts of his life that he chose to omit from the book, and he includes reflections on the (un)reliability of memory—one of the most important themes in the construction of autobiography.