Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist form; James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just completed Gertrude Stein held court at 27 Rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of and T.S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London. It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.