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    Sun Also Rises

    By Ernest Hemingway

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    Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman à clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their currency, the novel captured for the generation that would come to be called “Lost” the spirit of its age, and marked Ernest Hemingway as the preeminent writer of his time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribner
    Release dateMay 22, 2014
    ISBN9781476770215
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    Ernest Hemingway

    "You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." "I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it." "Isn't it pretty to think so." "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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    • 2/5
      Portret van een Lost Generation helemaal in lijn van Scott Fitzgerald, ook toets van Hesses Steppenwolf. Stylistisch helemaal de toonzetting van de echte Hemingway: direct, echte spreektaal.
    • 4/5
      Paris and Pamplona, the main settings for the partying lifestyles of Hemingway's characters. The Lost Generation spending their time in bars and cafes. Interesting relationship between Jake and Brett, strangely Brett is sympathetic despite her behaviour. The bull fighting scenes are particularly evocative. An interesting read.
    • 5/5
      my favorite!
    • 5/5
      As Hemingway's first novel, it is certainly beyond my comprehension how he could ever understand so much at the age of 27. I am reluctant to disclose too much for fear of spoilers, but the conclusion to the story is very real. The bullfighting is described in ways that make me want to see one, yet simultaneously I am appalled at the thought. Hemingway seems to have felt the same way. He also describes concussion in a way that can only be described by someone who has suffered several concussions. There are no lies in this work. I am becoming accustomed to the meandering first three-quarters of the typical Hemingway plot. It isn't hard work but it isn't gripping either. He seems to lull you into a comfortable sense of normalcy which doesn't end but the last quarter builds and builds to a climax in the last sentence that unfolds the final emotion. With the conclusion to "A Farewell to Arms" I burst into tears. With this novel I exclaimed, "That fucking sucks!" Hemingway's work is seriously brilliant while incredibly timeless. I am not sure whether it is simply cultural alignment or not, but the connection between the pedestrian and the nostalgic intertwined with the exotic European setting connects one's past to Hemingway's past to the power of two. He takes you to the place he has been and then where he is in the story. I am convinced this is the result of his technique of writing as the protagonist in the first person while excising, completely, the presence of the narrator. Brilliant stuff!
    • 4/5
      Ok but not crazy about it. Too much foolishness over a "bad" girl. But I guess she was the first of her kind leaving broken hearts and broken bottles of liquor in her path. I suppose the lost generation after WWI was a lot of people who experienced a world so different from the United states that they would never truly find their way home.
    • 4/5
      The reader is plunged vividly into the worlds of both the post-war lost generation of Paris in the 1920's and the blood-soaked and alcohol-fuelled fiesta de San Firmino of Pamplona. As always, Hemingway is sparse, brutal, and masculine.
    • 4/5
      This is a story about American expatriates, a group of writers bent on experiencing life and experiencing adventures. They are part of a cafe society in Paris where we meet Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, and Lady Brett Ashley. We soon learn that all of the men are in love with Brett, who is engaged to Mike but has had an affair with Robert and who loves Jake. The group decides to take off on an adventure to the Spanish hillsides for fishing and then to Pamplona to take in a bullfight. Jake and another friend, Bill Gorton, continue to the fishing trip but Mike and Brett are late and Robert decides to wait for Brett in Pamplona. Once the group is all in Pamplona, the bullfighting culture is terrifically described. Few people really understand the finer points of the sport, but Jake is one of them. He introduces Brett to a young bullfighter, whom she seduces and then falls in love with. Tension builds among all the men who are in love with Brett, but Cohn is the most frustrated thinking that he has laid his stake in her because of their affair. They are constantly getting drunk during the fiestas and eventually the men take on Cohn. Cohn is egged on by antisemitic remarks and, being a champion boxer, easily lays into the guys, injuring them all but especially beating Romero, the young bullfighter. Despite his injuries Romero successfully fights the next day and wins Brett as well. Finally, Jake rescues Brett who has been abandoned in Madrid by Romero. She announces that she has decided to stay with Mike, leaving Jake and Brett speaking of things that might, but could not, have been.
    • 2/5
      Dare I say that I found The Sun Also Rises disappointing? I've read three other Hemingway novels and really enjoyed them. Good stories, wonderful human portrayals and beautiful, tight writing. In this one the characters come alive and the writing is still beautiful and tight but the story left me cold. He follows the main character, Jake, on a trip to Basque country first to fish and then to Pamplona for the running of the bulls. Jake travels with and meets up with a group of friends most of whom are new to the Pamplona festival which presents an opportunity for Hemingway to share his love of bull fighting in Jake's introduction of the sport to his friends. Most of the book, however, deals with the relationships between the characters and describes the amazing amounts of alcohol they supposedly drank. I kept wondering how they avoided death from alcohol poisoning!
    • 5/5
      Every time I read "The Sun Also Rises," I come away with new ideas of what it's actually about, and I think that that's very high praise indeed. Sure, it's about bullfights and drinking and Hemingway's masculine obsessions, but this time around I was struck by the curious social dynamics at work among Jake Barnes's drunken, glamorous friends. Its a novel about in-groups and out-groups, whether the divide in question is between mere tourists and true bullfight "aficionados," those who saw the Great War up close and those who didn't, or riotous, shameless, spendy drunks and our kind of riotous, shameless, spendy drunks. For all of the author's powerful description of bullfights and bull runs, the scene that made the biggest impression on me was the one in which harmless steers quieted murderously dangerous bulls: the book is full of descriptions of various kinds of herd behavior. Hemingway's use of negative literary space here is nothing short of masterful: he implies the rules that the book's characters play by, but he never spells them out, and this brings the reader into their circle. Similarly, the book's haunted by the specter of the First World War, which seems to have affected all of its characters so deeply that they struggle -- or have perhaps given up trying -- to articulate the ways that they've been hurt. And the damage is extensive: the emotional and moral tone of "The Sun Also Rises" is so despairing that, overt antisemitism aside, Robert Cohn's most serious crime seems to be his sentimentalism. On a more personal level, there's Lady Brett Astley, Jake's potential soulmate and a puzzle composed gender, class, and sexual contradictions: she seemed to me a dangerous beauty jealously guarding a dwindling store of personal magnetism. "The Sun Also Rises" is a short book, but it reads long: Hemingway's prose is journalistically efficient in places, but he's not afraid to lapse into grand and obvious Spanishisms when he describes Pamplona's bullfights. All in all, an enigmatic masterpiece, a book to read and read again.
    • 2/5
      Portret van een Lost Generation helemaal in lijn van Scott Fitzgerald, ook toets van Hesses Steppenwolf. Stylistisch helemaal de toonzetting van de echte Hemingway: direct, echte spreektaal.
    • 4/5
      Classic novel -- emasculated WWI veteran finds himself in Paris with others of the lost generation. I kept drawing parallels to the children of the 60s, similar, I thought. Characters well developed as always. Papa did good in this novel. My first Hemingway novel in this decade, I'll read some more.
    • 5/5
      Doing a re-read of the novel for the Seasonal Reading Challenge (Fall 2009). I loved this book when I studied it in high school, so it will be interesting to see if I feel the same way about it now.
    • 1/5
      Hemingway is one of those divisive writers that you either love or you hate, and I happen to fall in the latter category. There is a point where literary realism and description can be taken so far as to reach the point of utter ennui, and nobody does this better than Hemingway. He has no intention of entertaining anybody, especially himself, and appears to write for no other reason but to record the most blandest and pointless conversations and events he can latch onto. Personally, as a reader, I'm far too lazy to make the inferences on my own that Hemingway wants me to, and what the critics love so much about him; I like to be shown everything I'm supposed to see and not have to play a guessing game. As far as I could tell, this novel has nothing more to do with a bunch of people drinking and watching bullfights, because I wasn't at all interested in figuring out the context of it all.
    • 5/5
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    • 5/5
      You don't always have to like a novel's protagonists in order to like the novel. It's not that Jake, Brett, Mike, Robert, and Bill are terrible people. But they spend much of their time hurting each other, even while partying together and drinking incessantly. They are flawed and human. All are based on real people Hemingway knew. The novel's action - plot is too structured a word for the action that takes place - is also based on true events. The Sun Also Rises is deservedly heralded as a great modernist novel. Hemingway's short, muscular sentences on display here influenced countless subsequent writers and the writing holds up extremely well, though at times the way people spoke in the 20s reminded me of a black and white James Cagney gangster film, "hey yous guys." I was impressed by some internal dialogue as well, especially a few pages written to reflect Jake's drunken thoughts racing from topic to topic that stood out from most of the other matter of fact descriptions. Even though not entirely likeable, I definitely encourage people to pick up this book and travel to Paris, Bayone, Pamplona, San Sabastian, Burguete with this crew. They're good company. In their 30s they are old enough to have experienced war, jobs, divorce, love, heartbreak, friendship and betrayal. But they are young enough to party hard, and experience life to its fullest, with all the humor and pain and irony and impossiblity that it has to offer.
    • 2/5
      So, I guess with reading this book I am not understanding the genius that they call Ernest Hemingway!

      I love his short stories, his poetry and his history which is intriguing in and of itself, but this one... Don't get it. It read to me like a travel blog with a ton of drinking! Disappointed ... I guess I better pick up a copy of The Old Man and the Sea quick!
    • 4/5
      Yeah, Hemingway, so I'm sure its great. I didn't get it.
      I feel dumb for not getting it, but I didn't get it.
      These characters were a brat pack of annoying spoileds getting drunk and roaming Europe. Read it anyway, because I'm a literary snob and Hemingway was on my literary bucket list. Someone please explain it to me.
    • 3/5
      When Hemingway was a writer, during that period of history, it wasn't really permissible to say that a guy just couldn't get it up. These days, that's what half of all books are about; when he wrote "Fiesta" Hemingway had to excuse his protagonist's inability as being a result of an injury suffered at war. Hmmm...
    • 3/5
      Interesting story, like most of the so called great books it was so-so. I guess this is the story where the running of the bulls became a thing for Americans to go to. A lot of the prose is unfamiliar in today's world. I found that keeping a dictionary close by was helpful.
    • 5/5
      Powerful, vivid book read in 1969, just after living in Spain - Hemmingway's description of Spain and bullfighting resonated strongly.
    • 5/5
      Amazing how fresh this feels.
    • 2/5
      Listened to Books on Tape edition narrated by Alexander Adams. I had the same problem with this that I did with The Paris Wife - I just didn't like anybody. In fact, I felt like the one sober person at a party where all the drunk people think they're hilarious, but in actuality are mean and destructive. Partly, I find these kinds of people hard to relate to - everyone is unhappily married, but in the process of getting divorced so they can unhappily marry somebody else which is just mystifying to me - why not try being alone for a bit, drinking a little bit less and see if that makes you happier? It probably doesn't help that bull fighting does nothing for me. I think I am just not destined to be a Hemingway fan.
    • 4/5
      I had just finished the Paris Wife which tells about EH writing this book after they had been to the bull-fights in Spain. I have to remember this was written in a different time. It seems all they did was drink and travel and I wonder how they had the money to do all of that. Not my favorite book. But glad I can say I read Hemmingway.
    • 5/5
      was not expecting to like this and don't really know why i did. a story of english-speakers in france and spain between wars, they all drink way too much and look down on the europeans. they are all in lust with brett who is more like a man than the men. jake is an extremely nice guy. hope he doesn't finish last. he keeps the novel going.
    • 4/5
      They turned The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, into a film in 1957, and I wonder about seeing it for fear they twisted this novel into some sort of Hollywood love story. You look at the representations of Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner on the poster and it seems that way, which is a long way off. Hemingway's novel is not a story of pining desire, but of absence and defeat. Barnes does not really want for Lady Ashley, but he did at one time, and the action of the novel is an agonizingly long extension of tangible loss for absolutely everything Barnes does not have. Barnes is castrated physically and emotionally, and the rest of his compatriots are just as lacking. Rather than getting anything from them he is casting stones into a reflecting pond. The most beautiful thing here is a bullfight, a gored steer or a dead matador after one or another elegant dance. Even the beauty to be found here is full of loss. Loss is stretched out across the arc of this narrative like an unwound intestine bloodied and rotting in the Pamplona sun.
    • 1/5
      I read "The Paris Wife" earlier this year and it tells the story of the Hemingways and friends going to bull fights in Spain, which inspired this first major break through work for Ernest. Thus, I felt compelled (yawwwwn) to read the actual (ho hum) book to see what all the (huh?) fuss was about.
      OK, so maybe he wrote differently than the other popular writers of that time, but I got little if no "meat" from this story of self-indulgent rich people with nothing better to do than to drink and drink and drink some more and fuss over a silly woman. Writing simple sentences can make you famous. I can write a simple sentence. I can be famous. I went to the pub and drank too much. Am I famous now? She is not one to read "the classics".
    • 4/5
      This book reads somewhat like a memoir, with well-drawn characters whom the narrator travels with in Spain, mostly. It captivated me. I remember Isaac Singer saying you can write a good story about going to the corner to shop, as long as the syntax is constructed properly. This book is an example of this. I should add that Mark Twain had said, "Whenever you write the word 'very,' replace it with the word 'damn.'" I would say that in this book the word 'very' is used on nearly every page, but it works.
    • 5/5
      I love Hemingway's writing. His short sentences allow for the language to flow off the page. His characters are well-developed and real. The story was very engaging and I enjoyed the bull fighting scenes the best. There is quite a bit of humor in the novel which shows that Hemingway was a master wordsmith. If you haven't read Hemingway, I suggest you start with this one. I look forward to reading some more of his books real soon.
    • 4/5
      Tried writing a review about how Hemingway's style was still developing when he wrote this one, and how much it developed even in the three years between this and A Farewell to Arms, but I gave it up. The Hemingway trademarks--the stripped-bare, understated style, the sparse dialogue, the easy, natural flow of the story--are all here, and if I don't think it all came together quite as smoothly as it did in A Farewell to Arms, it's because it's a different kind of book, with an entirely different scope.
    • 5/5
      Good grief. How did I get to be almost-sixty without reading this book? It's a brilliant story of a group of lost souls drifting, drifting, drifting, and it's told with the simplest of words (I'd love to see what comes up if you ran this whole book through Wordle or another word cloud generator...I can almost imagine it...I'm pretty sure "good" would be the size of the Eiffel Tower on the page.) and thousands of tiny conversations and lots of fishing and bull fighting and, of course, drinking and drinking and drinking.