The Sun Also Rises
The only authorized edition of Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, presented by the Hemingway family with illuminating supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library.
“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” —The Wall Street Journal
Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped cement Ernest Hemingway's status as the one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. A poignant look at disillusionment and angst, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most indelible characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley.
The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is set during an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. The story lays bare themes of alienation and disenchanted youth.
Hemingway's first novel is “an absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heartbreaking narrative...a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard, athletic prose” (The New York Times).
The Hemingway Library Edition commemorates Hemingway’s classic novel with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the author’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by Sean Hemingway, grandson of the author. Hemingway considered the extensive rewriting that he did to shape his first novel the most difficult job of his life. Early drafts, deleted passages, and possible titles included in this new edition elucidate how the author achieved his first great literary masterpiece.
“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” —The Wall Street Journal
Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped cement Ernest Hemingway's status as the one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. A poignant look at disillusionment and angst, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most indelible characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley.
The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is set during an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. The story lays bare themes of alienation and disenchanted youth.
Hemingway's first novel is “an absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heartbreaking narrative...a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard, athletic prose” (The New York Times).
The Hemingway Library Edition commemorates Hemingway’s classic novel with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the author’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by Sean Hemingway, grandson of the author. Hemingway considered the extensive rewriting that he did to shape his first novel the most difficult job of his life. Early drafts, deleted passages, and possible titles included in this new edition elucidate how the author achieved his first great literary masterpiece.
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Five stars for Spain, San Fermin, and a female character who does whatever she wants, but one star for racism and anti-semitism.
I can respect The Sun Also Rises for its literary appeal, for the glimpse we get into the "lost generation" following the First World War, but I didn't feel a strong connection to the characters. I found myself having to read between the lines too much, which became tiresome. It's quite possible I've become spoiled to the contemporary writing style of leaving little to the imagination, and now when I'm presented with it, I'm not sure what to make of it. However, there were parts of this novel I enjoyed--mostly the descriptions of the bull fights and their locale. Hemingway wanted this to be his Gatsby, but I'm afraid it doesn't compare for me. The potential was there, but too many loose threads.
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The narrative voice and awkward dialogue occasionally disrupts the otherwise immersive writing. Empty and repetitive characterisation. It's a product of it's time but the anti-Jewish nonsense is hard to detach from the book, especially since it does absolutely nothing to further the plot and comes off as lazy characterization of Cohn.
I listened to this on audiobook and for 8 hours I heard a man ramble on about all the drinking and partying he and his friends did. The only good thing was the narrator on the audiobook did a great job reading the story and adding some life to the overall dull, very dull, so dull I want a drink to make it more interestingly dull storyline.
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