" A Moveable Feast "

" A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway is one of my favorite stories. I travelled a lot between Europe and Japan, living in different cities every year. And I found it was interesting experience in my life.
I wrote an essay during I stayed in Paris, and when I came back to my hometown, my friend gave me this book, " A Moveable Feast ", because she said my essay reminded her his works. At first I confused this title, but I found a message from Hemingway inside the book which said,

" If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast" Ernest Hemingway to a friend, 1950

This book was based on Hemingway in Paris from 1921 to 1926 as a young American expatriate writer and it was his memoir describing city landscapes, cafes, society, people and life. It was published posthumously in 1964. ( He died in 1961)
His acquaintances in the story were Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda, Ezra Pound, Ford Maddox Ford, James Joyce, Sylvia Beach, and other prominent writers, poets, and artists. His approach of writing was cubist prose, which means keeping clipped short sentences and free from adjective in writing. It was different from metric expression of verse. He was developing his fiction writing style during this early period. It was narrative, simple and short straightforward. He also read many of great Russian writers stories at this period, in special Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. These authors books he borrowed from Sylvia's book store, "Shakespeare and Company" is located at 12 Rue de l'Odeon. This interest leaded him writing about the Wars. His first novel " The Sun Also Rises" was published in 1925.
In his memoir he observed their characters, conversations, attitudes, behaviours, tones, dresses, figures, appearances, and interactions with his acquaintances. At the time he was a young journalist who wanted to be a fiction writer to make a name for himself.
After Hemingway came back in America and resided in Key West and travelled different countries, such as Spain, Cuba, Italy, Africa and finally he settled in Ketchum, Idaho.
As you know he shot himself in 1961 suffering from bushfire accident(1954), life-long alcoholism, depression, ETC treatment, and memory loss. Some others believe it was caused by his hereditary disease called Hemochromatosis, because other members of his family, for example, his father, his siblings, and his grand-daughter were all committed suicide.