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Paris is a celebration, a hymn to life, friendship, creation, and a magnificent tribute to Paris.
Woody Allen's last film, "Midnight in Paris," led me to re-read this excellent author, Ernest Hemingway. Here, it is a minor work, but it reveals all the talent of its author.
Here, he evokes his first stay in Paris in the 1920s, in the company of his first wife, Hadley.
That's a financially difficult stay, poor in income but rich in joie de vivre, discoveries, and friendship.
We travel through time to discover the nightlife in Paris of the "Roaring Twenties." The talks at the Closerie des Lilas, the bustling Gertrude Stein and her shining circle, famous writers like Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Scott Fitzgerald, lesser-known as the Irish poet Ernest Walsh.
His friendship with Scott Fitzgerald is a rare friendship that mixes envy, admiration, and honesty.
The female characters are not left out, and the portrayal of Gertrude Stein and Zelda Fitzgerald is incredibly vivid and endearing. They are two ladies with solid consistency, from equal backgrounds, southerner for Zelda and both for Gertrude Stein.
It is an entertaining book that takes us on a journey through time in a fair, excellent company.
Woody Allen's last film, "Midnight in Paris," led me to re-read this excellent author, Ernest Hemingway. Here, it is a minor work, but it reveals all the talent of its author.
Here, he evokes his first stay in Paris in the 1920s, in the company of his first wife, Hadley.
That's a financially difficult stay, poor in income but rich in joie de vivre, discoveries, and friendship.
We travel through time to discover the nightlife in Paris of the "Roaring Twenties." The talks at the Closerie des Lilas, the bustling Gertrude Stein and her shining circle, famous writers like Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Scott Fitzgerald, lesser-known as the Irish poet Ernest Walsh.
His friendship with Scott Fitzgerald is a rare friendship that mixes envy, admiration, and honesty.
The female characters are not left out, and the portrayal of Gertrude Stein and Zelda Fitzgerald is incredibly vivid and endearing. They are two ladies with solid consistency, from equal backgrounds, southerner for Zelda and both for Gertrude Stein.
It is an entertaining book that takes us on a journey through time in a fair, excellent company.