The Man who cut down the adjectives
A couple of weeks back I finished reading "Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway. This is a memoir about his sojourn in Paris while still he was not established as a writer. He had been a journalist earlier. He had a distinct writing style. His words were simple, direct and the sentences mostly declarative. In Paris he dines and drinks with famous and to be famous writers. He wins and loses horse races. He makes fortune and spends quite a lot. It was here that the seeds of his first novel 'The Sun also rises' was sown in his mind and its draft completed. Browsing through the 75 odd pages one is left to wonder how this non fictional work makes interesting reading as though it were a fiction. Ernest Hemingway wrote to his friend thus.. "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" He records what he thinks while starting a new story. "Do ...