"You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil." Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist forms; James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just completed Ulysses; Gertude Stein held court at 27 rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of rue génération perdue; and T. S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London. It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and the subsequent masterpieces that followed. Among these small, reflective sketches are unforgettable encounters with the members of Hemingway's slightly rag-tag circle of artists and writers, some also fated to achieve fame and glory, others to fall into obscurity. Here, too, is an evocation of the Paris that Hemingway knew as a young man -- a map drawn in his distinct prose of the streets and cafés and bookshops that comprised the city in which he, as a young writer, sometimes struggling against the cold and hunger of near poverty, honed the skills of his craft. A Moveable Feast is at once an elegy to the remarkable group of expatriates that gathered in Paris during the twenties and a testament to the risks and rewards of the writerly life.

海明威（1899～1961）美國小說傢、諾貝爾文學奬獲得者。

1899年7月21日生於芝加哥市郊橡膠園小鎮。1923年發錶處女作《三個短篇小說和十首詩》，隨後遊曆歐洲各國。1926年齣版瞭長篇小說《太陽照樣升起》，初獲成功，被斯坦因稱為“迷惘的一代”。1929年，反映第一次世界大戰的長篇巨著《永彆瞭，武器》的問世給作傢帶來瞭聲譽。30年代初，海明威到非洲旅行和狩獵。1952年，《老人與海》問世，深受好評，翌年獲普利策奬。1954年獲諾貝爾文學奬。卡斯特羅掌權後，他離開古巴返美定居。因身上多處舊傷，百病纏身，精神憂鬱，1961年7月2日，海明威用獵槍自殺。 海明威去世後發錶的遺作主要有：《海流中的島嶼》（1970）和《伊甸園》（1986）。他那獨特的風格和塑造的硬漢子形象對現代歐美文學産生深遠的影響。