Revisiting and Rereading Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and McLain's The Paris Wife
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
In The Paris Wife (2012), a work of historical fiction, Paula McLain offers a response to Ernest Hemingway's memoir A Moveable Feast, published posthumously in 1964. McLain elaborates on the Paris years, focusing on Hemingway's first wife Hadley Richardson. I argue that McLain positions herself as an ideal reader of A Moveable Feast and invites her readers to engage in a similar process of discovery. Readers with a keen knowledge of Hemingway's memoir can grippingly see what McLain is writing against, complementing and creatively "completing." Further, current debates on sexual politics allow readers to approach The Paris Wife from new perspectives.
DOI
10.1353/hem.2022.0002
Recommended Citation
Marrone, C. (2022). Revisiting and rereading Hemingway's A Moveable feast and McLain's The Paris wife. The Hemingway Review 41(2), 19-30. Doi:10.1353/hem.2022.0002
