Title
Revisiting and Rereading Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and McLain's The Paris Wife
Document Type
Article
Annotation
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.
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
41
Issue
2
Date
Spring 2022
Pages
19-30
Citation
Marrone, Claire. "Revisiting and Rereading Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and McLain's The Paris Wife." Hemingway Review 41, no. 2 (Spring 2022): 19-30.