Hemingway went to Paris to be a writer, not an expatriate, but, although he was often derisive of them, his writing immortalizes the individuals whom he helped to characterize as the lost generation. He celebrated a place and time with a uniquely modern style, and at the same time he involved himself in feuds with other writers that still cause debates in literary circles. As a writer, at his best, he was governed by an absolute literary temperament and a sense for language that astonished his contemporaries.
Hemingway lived in Paris for a number of years during the twenties and returned to the city sporadically in the thirties. After 1925, when he experienced his first fame, he gradually became a victim of his youth and success; he was unfaithful first to his wife, then to his principles of life and art. By 1929, when he drifted away from Paris, he had published two highly praised, seminal volumes, Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923) and in our time (1924); two short-story collections, In Our Time (1925) and Men Without Women (1927); two major novels, The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929); and the controversial parody, The Torrents of Spring (1926).
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