Hemingway Adventure
Paris, France (first day)
Gertrude Stein, friend, creative influence and baby-sitter, with Jack (alias Bumby), Hemingway's first child, in the Jardin du Luxembourg.

‘He wanted to write like Cezanne painted,’
Hemingway has his alter ego, Nick Adams, saying in a short story called ‘On Writing’.
He took Stein seriously as a teacher (though he did tell Hadley, his wife, that he thought her breasts ‘must have weighed ten pounds apiece’) and she took him seriously as a writer, encouraging him to give up the journalism that was paying his way in Paris and concentrate on fiction.
It was Gertrude Stein who recommended he go to see bullfighting in Spain and taught him to cut his wife’s hair. It was at her soirées that he met writers like James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, and artists like Picasso and Juan Gris. But she paid scant attention to Hadley, and the relentless championing of her husband may have contributed to the tensions that broke up the Hemingways’ marriage four years after they arrived in Paris.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Hemingway Adventure
- Chapter: Paris, France (first day)
- Country/sea: France
- Place: Paris
- Book page no: 76
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