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There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very
happy. Ernest Hemingway
T)aris is 'the city I love best in all the world', declared Ernest Hemingway. Though later he may have preferred life in other Latin countries, Paris was the scene of his apprenticeship, of the best years of his life. It was the 'moveable feast' he would evoke in his only memoir - his veritable anthem to the city - A Moveable Feast (1959). Call Girl Paris
Few writers have been .more place-conscious than Hemingway, as he himself later acknowledged in his Paris Review interview with George Plimpton, and in A Moveable Feast. In both accounts his emphasis was on the necessity of writing in places that were conducive to clear thinking and i~tense feeling. The sense of place and the sense of fact were vitally linked to his art. He would implant each novel in its own geography - noting even what time it was on each page. For the artist as a young man, the place was Paris. He taught himself to write in this city. His sense of fact drew him to its streets - he walked every street and square and bridge of the central city. The young artist became inexorably linked to this place.
Hemingway completed his education away from Oak Park, Illinois, where he was born in 1899. He was the son of pious, middle-class parents (a music teacher and a doctor) and his early acquaintances in Paris thought the Midwesterner was a shy man, serious about his work. He had been a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star after his graduation from Oak Park High School. Then he was wounded in 1918 in Italy, where he was driving an ambulance for the Red Cross. Afterwards he took a job as a reporter for the Toronto Star. Because he wanted to be a writer, and at the suggestion of Sherwood Anderson, he moved to Paris, three years after the Armistice.
Although Herningway had already been in Paris once for about 24 hours in June 1918 (on his way to Milan), his first true introduction to the city was in December of 1921. He arrived with his bride, Hadley Richardson, to write freelance articles for the Toronto Star. They had a patrimony belonging to Hadley that essentially supported them. They had letters of introduction from Sherwood Anderson, but they knew no one in the city. Hadley, who had studied French for eight years, served as translator until her husband learned street French, which he did quickly. Hemingway's first stop was the Hotel Jacob et d'Angleterre in the Saint-Cermain-des-Pres area - a first stop for many visiting artists. Soon he and Hadley were living off the Place de la Contrescarpe on Mont Sainte-Cenevieve, He briefly rented a room around the corner on rue Descartes and worked there on his short stories with dedication and determination. Though he loved this old, poor section of Paris, it was a distance from most of his new friends - those who were leaders in the literary world.
Paris was a magnet for important people - people who would be significant to Hemingway's development: Gertrude Stein had arrived in 1902, Sylvia Beach in 1917, and Ezra Pound and James Joyce in 1920. Hemingway soon learned that it was a city that was, in his own words, 'the best organized for a writer to write in that there is'. He felt very fortunate: 'To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given you'.
Paris was home while he explored many corners of Europe, while he learned his craft. He told composer Ceorge Antheil, who lived above the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, that 'unless you have geography, background, you have nothing'. This sense of geography was as important for the novel as for the novelist. Paris in the 1920s - with its landmarks and people and visiting artists - helped form the writer Hemingway. His experience is a paradigm for the young American expatriate artist.
Though Paris would be his home for seven years, journalism and sports took him all over Europe. He interviewed Benito Mussolini in Milan and Georges Clemenceau in the Vendee. One of the journalists whom he met on these trips, William Bird, would later publish his work. On one of his trips Hadley came to join him and lost, at the Care de Lyon, a case with most of his early manuscripts ('Up in Michigan' and 'My Old Man' survived).
A number of these early stories were set in his boyhood Michigan. Though he recreated in his early short fiction these scenes of youth, he was drawn to more immediate experiences of war and life in Europe. Unlike James Joyce and other writers who had become exiles from their homes, Hemingway did not long devote his fiction to a re-creation of home. His first novel would be set in France and Spain, his second in Italy.
Hemingway loved sports and their test of his strength and manhood.
Paris had sports clubs, boxing rings, tennis courts,.and arenas for races. He rarely used these sporting places in his fiction, but he confessed in his memoirs that he 'started many stories about bicycle racing'. With Robert McAlmon and William Bird, both American writers and publishers, he took his first trip to Spain in 1923 to witness a bullfight. He took Hadley to Pamplona in July 1923 for its prenatal influence on their unborn child. (He would give the child a middle name of a Spanish bullfighter: Nicanor.)
Hemingway - nearly everyone called him Hem - made friends easily, and he learned the skill (the literary strategy) of ingratiating himself with the right people. When he and Hadley left after their first year and a half - to fulfil a commitment to his editor and for the birth of their baby in Toronto - he numbered Ezra Pound, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Robert McAlmon, and William Bird among his friends. Beach, the owner of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop, lent him $100 for boat passage. By this time McAlmon had published Three Stories and Ten Poems for his Contract Publishing Company, and Bird had accepted in our time (which he printed without capitalization) for publication by the Three Mountains Press.
After the Hemingways returned to Paris in 1924, they moved near Beach, Stein, and Pound to an apartment above the sawmill in rue NotreDame-des-Champs. These were important years for his growing literary reputation: he worked on the Transatlantic Review with Ford Madox Ford, returned to Spain, and wrote The Sun Also Rises (published in the UK as Fiesta), a paean to the 'lost generation'. The novel is filled with the places and people he knew in Paris and Pamplona. Much of the authority of The Sun Also Rises comes from his detailed knowledge of these places - their terrain, their smells, their moods.
The experience he was collecting in Paris and Europe was transformed into his most fertile period of writing. Just during the seven months after returning from Toronto, where he had resigned from his job with the Star, he wrote nine stories, including' Big Two- Hearted River'. Though he later romanticized his discipline and poverty, he could afford an extra room to work in and trips to Schruns for skiing and to Pamplona for bullfights. He was comfortable enough to write and enjoy life; he was rich in friends. Visiting writers sought his company, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, who met him at the Dingo Bar in 1925.
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