The Sun Also Rises (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1920’s
- 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
Places Discussed
*Paris. French capital, in which the novel opens. There, American newspaperman Jake Barnes lives and works in the midst of a community of American and British expatriates who find the city a wasteland of values. A question regarding values that arises early in the book is the contrast between work and idleness, and this opposition is reflected in the Parisian locales frequented by Jake and his friends.
Paris is split by the River Seine into two sections: the Right Bank (Rive Droite) and the Left Bank (Rive Gauche). In the novel, work is...
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