The exchange rate was great for Americans, and in A Moveable Feast Hemingway talks constantly about how poor he was. Why did people like Hemingway and Stein end up living in Paris in the 1920s? ![]() He enables us to think about American literature in a very broad context, with him as the starting point. The authors who are usually referred to in this context are people like Junot Díaz and Amy Tan, but Hemingway is a very good example of someone who can show us the rest of the world, because he has travelled so widely and because he is on the minds of so many people. More particularly for me, I’m interested in American literature as an entry point to the rest of the world. There has been a recent re-imagination of the two of them in The Paris Wife and The Book of Salt – two of the books on my list. What makes you particularly interested in Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein? ![]() Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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