![]() ![]() Already, Hemingway is alerting the reader that this is a different kind of memoir, one that acknowledges its restrictions. Some were secrets and some were known by everyone and everyone has written about them and will doubtless write more” (3). He opens the novel with a preliminary note to the reader “For reasons sufficient to the writer, many places, people, observations and impressions have been left out of this book. ![]() In so doing, he asserts a new kind of memoir, one that understands the limitations of subjective perception and memory and that acknowledges its place within competing accounts. Hemingway uses the Preface as an opportunity to vocalize his understanding of the relation between fact and fiction. ![]() A Moveable Feast is a memoir of Hemingway’s time in Paris, but to categorize the memoir as purely nonfiction would be incorrect. ![]()
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