‘길 잃은 세대(Lost Generation)’의 자전적 회고록 - 어니스트 헤밍웨이의 『파리는 날마다 축제(A Moveable Feast)』(1964)

An Autobiographical Memoir of ‘The Lost Generation’ － Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast(1964)

This book review is based on the ‘Roaring Twenties’ or ‘les Années folles’ described in Hemingway’s autobiographical memoir of his days in Paris, A Moveable Feast. The purpose is to read the literary self-portrait of Hemingway’s youth as he walks the streets and writes, stops by restaurants to eat, and meets colleagues and senior literary figures while drinking alcohol. Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast is a story about the artists Hemingway interacted with during his time in Paris in the 1920s, his thoughts on literary writing, his own creative method, living and living in Paris, and traveling to neighboring cities. The memories and sketches of the landscape unfold in each chapter like a documentary film or like a panorama, stimulating the readers’ sensibilities. In that sense, this book is a text that allows us to look into Hemingway as a writer’ and ‘Hemingway as a human’ from both sides, and is a gateway to Hemingway’s entire literature and an interesting autobiographical story of Hemingway’s youth, from which we can infer the main theme of his literary life. We could call it a memoir. A Moveable Feast can be said to be a three-dimensional self-portrait in Paris in the 1920s that fully shows Hemingway’s life, love, literature, spiritual breathing and prose struggle with artists who lived at the same time.