The Sun Also Rises

E-bok, 270 sidor

På English

Publicerades 4 januari 2022 av Penguin Group.

ISBN:: 978-0-525-50827-4
Goodreads:: 58734880

It's the early 1920s in Paris, and Jake, a wounded World War I veteran working as a journalist, is hopelessly in love with charismatic British socialite Lady Brett Ashley. Brett, however, settles for no one: an independent, liberated divorcée, all she wants out of life is a good time. When Jake, Brett, and a crew of their fellow expatriate friends travel to Spain to watch the bullfights, both passions and tensions rise. Amid the flash and revelry of the fiesta, each of the men vies to make Brett his own, until Brett’s flirtation with a confident young bullfighter ignites jealousies that set their group alight.

An indelible portrait of what Gertrude Stein called the Lost Generation—the jaded, decadent youth who gave up trying to make sense of a senseless world in the disaffected postwar era—The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway’s beloved first novel, is a masterpiece of modernist literature …

It's the early 1920s in Paris, and Jake, a wounded World War I veteran working as a journalist, is hopelessly in love with charismatic British socialite Lady Brett Ashley. Brett, however, settles for no one: an independent, liberated divorcée, all she wants out of life is a good time. When Jake, Brett, and a crew of their fellow expatriate friends travel to Spain to watch the bullfights, both passions and tensions rise. Amid the flash and revelry of the fiesta, each of the men vies to make Brett his own, until Brett’s flirtation with a confident young bullfighter ignites jealousies that set their group alight.

An indelible portrait of what Gertrude Stein called the Lost Generation—the jaded, decadent youth who gave up trying to make sense of a senseless world in the disaffected postwar era—The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway’s beloved first novel, is a masterpiece of modernist literature and one of the finest examples of the distinctly spare prose that would become his legacy to American letters.

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Endless days in Paris and Pamplona

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There is a particular charm to Ernest Hemingway’s debut novel, The Sun Also Rises. Of course, ‘we will always have Paris,’ as Humphrey Bogart said, but it’s not just because the characters live and feast near Jardin du Luxembourg and Montparnasse. (Yes, Jake, we were practically neighbours there, though I do not understand how you managed to afford La Closerie des Lilas without a proper salary. Did the place change that much?) Just as a party can be captivating when you lose track of time, this novel draws you in as it meanders through the day-to-day lives of five seemingly carefree American expats, who stroll from one bar to the next. Their activities and discussions hold no particular significance, merely unfolding against the backdrop of interwar Paris and the San Fermín festival in Pamplona.

What struck me most was the filmic atmosphere of the novel, as …

There is a particular charm to Ernest Hemingway’s debut novel, The Sun Also Rises. Of course, ‘we will always have Paris,’ as Humphrey Bogart said, but it’s not just because the characters live and feast near Jardin du Luxembourg and Montparnasse. (Yes, Jake, we were practically neighbours there, though I do not understand how you managed to afford La Closerie des Lilas without a proper salary. Did the place change that much?) Just as a party can be captivating when you lose track of time, this novel draws you in as it meanders through the day-to-day lives of five seemingly carefree American expats, who stroll from one bar to the next. Their activities and discussions hold no particular significance, merely unfolding against the backdrop of interwar Paris and the San Fermín festival in Pamplona.

What struck me most was the filmic atmosphere of the novel, as if Federico Fellini and Woody Allen had collaborated to make a movie in the style of Casablanca or The Talented Mr. Ripley. Perhaps such associations reflect how influential Hemingway truly was. Books that came to mind were: ・ Giovanni’s Room (Americans crossing the ocean to escape conventions back home); ・ The Great Gatsby (published just a year earlier); and ・ Look Homeward, Angel (not necessarily for common ground, but because this novel ends in the United States with the onset of World War I, it felt as though Hemingway was picking up the story from the previous generation).

That said, I wouldn’t describe this as an outstanding novel. Ultimately, the lack of plot began to get on my nerves. I’m looking forward to continue my reading with The Old Man and the Sea.

“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.” Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. “Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”