Beginning in the narrow streets around Place Monge, where a young Ernest first learned what it meant to write “one true sentence,” our walk will descend through the Luxembourg Gardens and the Latin Quarter before culminating at Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare & Company. During our stroll, we will read and discuss various excerpts to better understand Hemingway’s early years in Paris (1921-1928) without forgetting the many people who helped him succeed. From Sherwood Anderson to Gertrude Stein to Hadley Richardson and many others, this walk is as much about Hemingway as it is about the literary community that helped pave the way for one of the most iconic writers in American literature.

 

Join published novelist and seasoned flâneur, Samuél, for a unique experience that will leave guests with as many new questions as answers about the story of life, literature, and the arts in this hallowed city.