The Sun Also Rises (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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
Hemingway's characters in The Sun Also Rises are much like the people with whom he came into daily contact in Paris in the early 1920's. A large group of expatriates, labeled by Stein “the lost generation,” lived by their wits, by what jobs they could find, or by handouts from home. So it is with the characters in Hemingway's novel.
The story revolves around two Americans—Jake Barnes, a newspaperman whose war injury has made him impotent, and Robert Cohn, who boxed well enough at Princeton University that he became the university's middleweight boxing champ. Cohn,...
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