Hemingway’s Favorite Venice Bar Offering Discounts to Americans
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 04.08.08 | 10:40 AM ET
Yes, this is what the weak dollar and subprime loan disaster have come to: discounts at Harry’s Bar. Can you imagine the final line of A Moveable Feast were it written today? “But this is how Venice was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy and many fine American homes were in foreclosure and we were enjoying 20 percent off at Harry’s Bar.”
Or not.
Actually, as the Reuters story points out, Hemingway mentioned Harry’s Bar in “‘Across the River and Into the Trees,’ which was published in 1950 and which he wrote on the lagoon island of Torcello while living in an inn owned by the Cipriani family.”
“A Moveable Feast,” of course, ends with a recollection of Paris.
Related on World Hum:
* Did Hemingway Really Drink Mojitos at La Bodeguita del Medio?
* Recalling Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’
Photo by rfarmer via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
