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Donaldson, Scott (2002). "Hemingway's Morality of Compensation". in Wagner-Martin, Linda (ed). Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook. New York: Oxford UP. ISBN 978-0-19-514573-1 After his divorce of 1927 from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. At the Spanish civil war, he acted as a journalist; afterward, they divorced, and he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s.

Really, though, that was my impression: boring. Of course, I didn't read this while lapping sangria in Madrid, which I've heard will heighten this novel's overall effect. Despite my high expectations, The Sun Also Rises does not "rise" (get it?) to the level of those books. Or maybe I'm an idiot. It's possible. This book is supposedly one of his masterpieces - if not his magnum opus. I thought it was - gulp - kinda boring. A second, related response on the part of American writers involved leaving the country altogether, and many — best-selling novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Modernist poet Ezra Pound, among others — did just that. They joined disaffected English- and Irishmen like Ford Maddox Ford and James Joyce in Paris, in a social and artistic circle that formed around the writer Gertrude Stein, herself an American expatriate. Stein is responsible for one of the epigraphs that introduce The Sun Also Rises ("You are all a lost generation") and it was she who served as a creative writing teacher to Ernest Hemingway, who left the States in 1921.Hemingway books coming out in audio editions" MSNBC.com (February 15, 2006). Retrieved 27 February 2011.

Which brings us to The Sun Also Rises as a love story. Even the most casual reader recognizes that Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley share a profound mutual attraction. They love one another deeply, and their carnal desire for each other is fierce. The problem: Jake has been wounded in the war in such a way that sexual intercourse is now impossible for him. Significantly, the particular nature of his wound has not ruled out desire, just its satisfaction. (It seems that he has lost his penis but not his testicles.) Therefore, being near Brett is agony for Jake. He could probably satisfy her sexually, and he may have done so during the period referred to when they attempted a relationship. But Jake himself exists in a kind of erotic limbo, like Greek mythology's Tantalus, who keeps bending over to drink the water he stands in, only to have it drain away immediately.Great. I’m looking forward to it.” Said not dead Ernest. We swayed to our feet, Ernest took my arm, we steadied ourselves and stumbled off into the sunset. The Sun Also Rises tells the story of Jake Barnes, an ex-patriate living in Paris. He was wounded in World War I and is now impotent. He is in love with Ashley, who is a... What did they call sluts in the early 20th Century? Because that's sort of what she is, though she has a tender place in her heart for Jake, to whom she keeps returning. Jake is a journalist, apparently haunted by the war, and he spends his time drinking in Paris. There's also a guy named Robert Cohn, a former boxer, who's also in love with Ashley. Bill and Mike also hang around; Mike was originally in a relationship with Ashley, before he lost her to Cohn, who in turn loses her to a Spanish bullfighter. Hays, Peter L., ed. (2007). "Teaching Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises." Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press. According to Hemingway, people get corrupted not only because they are affected by indiscriminate circumstances, but also under other people’s influence. When the hotel master Montoya, whose love of bull-fight is passionate, asks Jake whether he should transfer the American ambassador’s invitation to Pedro Romero or not, the main character’s answer is clear and categorical: “No”. As it is usual with Hemingway, a developed criticism of the problem is absent here. A life-wise reader is supposed to understand everything without explanation.

Nagel, James (1996). "Brett and the Other Women in The Sun Also Rises". in Donaldson, Scott (ed). The Cambridge Companion to Ernest Hemingway. New York: Cambridge UP. ISBN 978-0-521-45574-9 McDowell, Edwin, "Hemingway's Status Revives Among Scholars and Readers". The New York Times (July 26, 1983). Retrieved 27 February 2011 I've read this book every year since 1991, and it is never the same book. Like so many things in this world, The Sun Also Rises improves with age and attention. If I were Hemingway's English teacher (or anyone's any kind of teacher) I'd say, "This reads more like a screenplay than a novel. Where are your descriptions, where is the emotion??"I know, I heard the same thing, that you were one of the greatest American writers, so imagine my surprise when I didn't love it like the rest of the human race. In fact, I really didn't like it AT ALL! Please don’t hurt me.”

The owner of a Pamplona inn and a bullfighting expert. Montoya sees bullfighting as something sacred, and he respects and admires Jake for his genuine enthusiasm about it. Montoya takes a paternal interest in the gifted young bullfighter Pedro Romero and seeks to protect him from the corrupting influences of tourists andfame. Frances Clyne Hemingway renders the disorientation and distractedness of the Lost Generation in sparing prose, devoid of sentimentality and flowery language. In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway barely develops the interior lives of his main characters. By withholding key details about their mental and emotional states, Hemingway conveys the fundamental emptiness of the expatriates’ lives. ReceptionHerlihy-Mera, Jeffrey (2023). “ The Sun Also Rises: A Pilgrimage Novel”. The Hemingway Review. 42 (2): 25–55 https://www.academia.edu/101457931/ Thus, Jake is not merely a casualty of war in general, like the characters of Homer, Tolstoy, and others before him. Bayonets were still in use at this time; Hemingway could have made Jake a victim of one. Instead, Jake is injured specifically by the Great War's modern aspect — by modernity itself, one might say. Hemingway expanded upon this theme in A Farewell to Arms, the hero of which is famously wounded by an enemy bomb while eating a bowl of spaghetti. I’m not drunk. I’m quite serious. Is Robert Cohn going to follow Brett around like a steer all the time?”

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