Course Details
962: Hemingway's A Moveable Feast
July 8-10
1:45 PM -
3:15 PM
In-Person
Our goal will be to analyze Hemingway's coming of age memoir, as he looks back at his young life in Paris in the 1920s. We will see how he came into his own professionally as a writer despite initial setbacks and grinding poverty and we will examine his portraits of some of the great names in the 20th-century artistic world, including F. Scott Fitzgerald. We will discuss the sweetness of his first love with Hadley Richardson, which permeates the book, until he destroys it all at the end. All of this is with the backdrop of a Paris in its ever-changing moods; life was hard then after World War I, but it was also magical. If you are interested in memoirs and in Paris, then this class may be for you.
Class Type: Reading and Discussion
Class Format: In-Person
Hours of Reading: Less than 1 hour/session
Study Group Leader(s):
Thomas ParkerThomas Parker studied with Harold Bloom at Yale University and taught at the Universities of Paris, Haifa, and George Washington. He also worked in international affairs for the US government for three decades. He lived in Paris and New York City during the 1970s before moving to Washington.