The Sun Also Rises (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Roman à clef
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Alienation, Paris, 1920’s, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, Substance abuse, Anti-Semitism, Veterans, Spain or Spanish people, Bullfighting or bullfighters, Festivals
- Locales: Paris, France, Pamplona, Spain
Jake Barnes, like nearly every other Hemingway hero, suffers from a terrible wound. His wound--he has suffered emasculation as a combatant in World War I--is emblematic of the sterility and impotence of modern man. Modern woman fares little better, as Hemingway shows in Brett Ashley, whose sexual excess is merely another form of sterility. These characters and their joyless friends live in a moral and cultural Waste Land, and indeed critics have discovered in this novel a prose analogue to T.S. Eliot’s poem of that title.
Hemingway is particularly harsh in his indictment of...
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