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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...more
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Half-fiction, half-memoir, The Sun Also Rises is a story about all and nothing, the Lost Generation of American expats in Europe and passtiming. Jacob "Jake" Barnes, the journalist hanging out in Europe at the end of World War I, is surrounded by drunkard-yet-affable Americans, proud Spaniards, and the occasional British. In a slow-paced, well-detailed story, Hemingway captures a lifestyle of...more
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Never read it in school, so I made myself read Todd's copy.
If you have to MAKE yourself read a book, it must not be your cup of tea. I will admit that I was thrilled that I did figure out the sublimities involved in the plot rather easily. I guess you can do that if you wait 25 or 30 years longer than when you were supposed to figure it out, to actually READ the book! LOL.
The story concerns a group of friends of the "lost generation" who get together and go see a bullfight. There isn't much more to it than that - the book simply follows them, and follows their various quarrels and conversations. In some ways, it's just a book about a bunch of friends who spend a lot of time in bars - but in it, Hemingway sneaks in a delicious taste of the bitterness of reality.
This book was not a page turner. Hemingway was good at depicting the jealousies and desires of three men after the same woman. However, there really is no plot to speak of. While many modern books tend to rely way too much on the plot and not on character development, this book has the opposite problem.
In on of Kurt Vonnegut's later work he likens Hemingway to a master painter. You may not always like his subject matter but the brush work is superb.
I love the way he controls the tempo of a story. When the character is lazying about fishing, the pace slows. While, during the bull fights, he whips along frantically.
I don't really care about the themes or the imagery or the symbolism. In this...more
A good 45% of the text of this book is spent describing what people are drinking, planning to drink, or trying to drink, and this demonstrates what is great about Hemingway. He could make a grocery list into gripping, nigh on Nobel-worthy literature.
There may be conflicting views about this all time classic by Hemingwey, I have even read somewhere that it was not received well in its time, but in my opinion, this novel has such artistically integrated overtones and highly metaphorical portrayal that what is says can not be said in a better way. The adagissimo theme has hidden allegro woven with it, so subtly that you might miss it...more
It's really hard to get used to Hemmingway's prose. He uses short, concise sentences that keep everything moving at a breakneck speed, often times even the dialog. That's where I have a problem with him. Between the accents, dialects, and having to guess as to the inflection and tone behind what the characters were says, I didn't particularly enjoy reading this. Can I also...more
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