The Sun Also Rises

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978-0-7432-9733-2
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The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. However, Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work", and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by Scribner's. A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. It remains in print. The novel is a roman à clef: the characters are based on real people in Hemingway's circle, and the action is based on real events, particularly Hemingway's life in Paris in the 1920s and a trip to Spain …

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Was not expecting to enjoy this novel as much as I did... having been living with the impression that Hemingway leaves the difficulty of writing to the readers and claims it is literary under his 'ice-berg theory'. In The Sun Also Rises, we have a good travel piece coupled with modernist themes. As a travel piece, it is excellent in the descriptions of the Spanish countryside and the San Fermin festival. Of course, what is more important is how all this is better related to our characters, the expatriates affected by World War I and the loss of innocence/trust/naivete that that entails. In particular, the bull fights and how the various parts relate to World War I or to the various characters is interesting. They take on the form of organic symbols, or rather, they are not the same for each character. It's that sort of adaptable symbolism that makes …

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