Title
Paris, 1922: Memory is the Best Critic
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Revisits the familiar story of Hemingway’s lost Paris manuscripts recounted in A Moveable Feast, concluding that their disappearance, though painful at the time, benefited the young author’s development by forcing him to rewrite his early fiction.
Published in
In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes
Date
2017
Pages
39-51
COinS
Citation
van Straten, Giorgio. “Paris, 1922: Memory is the Best Critic.” In In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes. Trans. Simon Carnell and Erica Segre, 39-51. London: Pushkin Press, 2017.