As anyone who has ever watched "Midnight in Paris" will tell you, the City of Light was the core of artistic life in the 1920s, with big names like F. Scott Fitzgerald and wife Zelda (played by Tom Hiddleston and Alison Pill playing the famous pair) being among the guests of this movable feast - and Ernest Hemingway's Paris love letter has given Parisians solace in these tough times.
A few years after Hemingway's suicide, his widow Mary gave publishers a collection of manuscripts and notes found around his home that ended up becoming his memoir from his youth in the French capital, "A Moveable Feast," a novel that's turning into a best seller in the country days after the ISIS attacks, with Ernest Hemingway's Paris love giving the French a little bit of hope in these dark times.
According to CNN, sales of Ernest Hemingway's Paris memoir have risen in the days following the Paris attacks, as the French have taken to find hope and love to their beautiful city in the wake of the horror that left 193 deaths behind last November 13 - and bookstores all over the city have seen Hemingway's memoir flying off shelves.
"Paperback versions are being deposited, along with flowers and candles, in front of bullet-ridden windows at one of the Paris bars targeted by the jihadist gunmen," reports Agence France Presse about Ernest Hemingway's Paris story. "The book can also be found in front of the Bataclan concert hall, the epicentre of last Friday's slaughter which left 129 people dead and more than 350 injured."
Goode Reader reports that sales of Ernest Hemingway's Paris book have gone from an average of 10-15 days a day to 500, a fairly impressive difference in a time of moral need for the French people as well as the rest of the world.
"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," wrote the Nobel Literature Prize winner in Ernest Hemingway's Paris book, not knowing his words would bring hope to a morally devastated people over half a century later.
