The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
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Author: Ernest HemingwayEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-17
ISBN: 0743297334
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Scribner
Accessories:
- The Old Man and The Sea
- Death in the Afternoon
- A Farewell To Arms
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
Book Reviews of The Sun Also Rises
Book Review: Lost Generation and lost novel
Summary: 3 Stars
that was my second novel of Hemingway. it is very easy read and there is no question about his unique way of writing in short dialogue style that was considered at that time as a new great prose.
the story itself ,I think,is boring and has no goal.it depicts the meaningless lives of different characters,especially Jake Barnes, middle aged man,impotent and alcoholic,who is in love with Brett Ashley,seductive and pretty woman.
Everybody in the book is lost ,seeking peace in alcohol and sex to the point of somebody is drinking and trying to have a "swell time" in every page.alcohol seemed like an escape from a rotten hopeless life and a cure of great depression in all characters.
Jake ,through his hidden sexual inferiority complex,sounds like a real nice man who tries his best in making Brett happy. He even arranges for her date with the bull fighter,Pedro Romero,who is half her age.
there is nothing in the story that you could describe as suspense,unexpected,exciting,optimistic or even natural. everything is focused on bitter depressed melancholy that doesn't make you sympathize with anyone,including the civil and courteous Robert Cohn who sounds from another planet.
this might be a book telling the real life of a lost generation,the aimless confusing state of punch of Americans who ran to Europe for better homeland and security after world war I.
it has many similarities to Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" or "Babbitt" of Sinclair Lewis but of lower value.
not recommended.
Summary of The Sun Also Rises
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth centuryThe Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it's as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway's famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that." His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fianc?, Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton--are as familiar as the "cool crowd" we all once knew. No wonder this quintessential lost-generation novel has inspired several generations of imitators, in style as well as lifestyle.
Jake Barnes, Hemingway's narrator with a mysterious war wound that has left him sexually incapable, is the heart and soul of the book. Brett, the beautiful, doomed English woman he adores, provides the glamour of natural chic and sexual unattainability. Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris caf?s, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the "wonderful nightmare" of a week-long fiesta. Brett, with fianc? and ex-lover Cohn in tow, breaks hearts all around until she falls, briefly, for the handsome teenage bullfighter Pedro Romero. "My God! he's a lovely boy," she tells Jake. "And how I would love to see him get into those clothes. He must use a shoe-horn." Whereupon the party disbands.
But what's most shocking about the book is its lean, adjective-free style. The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece--one of them, anyway--and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation. --David Laskin
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