As Paris Heals, Its Readers Are Turning to Ernest Hemingway's A Movable Feast
LatestAs France recollects itself after this week’s terror attacks in Paris, many survivors and supporters are looking to art as a way to fight back. Ernest Hemingway’s memoir about his time in 1920s Paris has come to symbolize the city’s resilience.
Parisians are rushing to buy Hemingway’s A Movable Feast (Paris est une Fete), published in 1964, both as a hard copy and online. According to Bloomberg, the book’s sales climbed 50-fold just this week after a French news station interviewed a 77-year-old woman who encouraged everyone to read the book.