This lecture takes us back to 1920s Paris - the years when the young Hemingway was just searching for his own voice among the bohemia, poverty, and great literary hopes. The conversation will connect biography, cultural context, and the atmosphere of the era, and the familiar writer will appear as a living person within a noisy, vibrant, and contradictory time. There are writers whose biography sounds like a novel in itself, and the Parisian period of Ernest Hemingway's life belongs to such stories. This lecture is dedicated to the years when the future classic was just beginning his literary journey, living very modestly in France, observing, absorbing, and gradually finding his own intonation. Such a conversation is especially interesting because it allows us to see the well-known author not as a figure from a textbook, but as a young man caught in the center of a great cultural movement. The focus will be on the years spent in Paris from 1921 to 1926. This time was later reflected in the book "A Moveable Feast," but the lecture will help to look at the realities described there without the usual romanticization. It will be important to understand where artistic memory diverges from fact and what really lies behind the myth of Parisian freedom. This perspective makes the meeting valuable for those who love literature not only as text but also as part of living history. A special place will be given to the cultural environment surrounding the writer. Paris at that time was the bookshop "Shakespeare and Company" of Sylvia Beach, the circle of Gertrude Stein, the figure of Ezra Pound, the artistic explorations of Pablo Picasso, and the boiling bohemian life where literature, painting, music, and new ideas intersected. Through these names and spaces, the lecture will show not only a private biography but also the very spirit of the era in which the "lost generation" was born. The lecturer will be Nina Shcherbak - PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of English Philology and Linguocultural Studies at St. Petersburg State University. This promises an accurate, substantive conversation where biographical details will be connected with literary analysis and historical context.