The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | The First from a Brilliant Writer

The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | Review from a Lit Scholar

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The Sun Also Rises

	The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 2006 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 481 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The First from a Brilliant Writer

A young Ernest Hemingway writes his first novel. Full of the joy and sadness of youth, no one is better than Hemingway in evoking the sensual pleasures of the world. Lovely prose, wonderful energy... Hemingway in the first flush of his true talent. Not to be missed.

Donald Gallinger is the author of The Master Planets

Review from a Lit Scholar

I think Hemingway attacked the theme of insecurity because, he was also dealing with his own issues.
Hemingway had a history of alcoholism and this novel serves as release for the author. The speaker, Jake, takes an adventure and in turn experiences a self-discovery. The fiestas, society, and friends meant everything for Jake at the novel's opening. However through a difficult journey dealing with lost love and false friends, Jake manages to realize several truths in his life: his drinking will lose him friends and those he calls friends are not true in their loyalty.

Montoya, the hotel owner that shared Jake's passion for bullfighting, no longer wished to associate with Jake after the fiesta. Due to all the rabble-rousing, partying, drinking, and the friends Jake brought, Montoya no longer could bear to be associated with Jake. Hemingway, too, lost friends as a result of his hurtful drinking habits.

Despite his losses, Jake realizes that his love for Brett is merely and allusion. The novel ends:
"'Oh, Jake,' Brett said, 'we could have had such a damned good time together.'... 'Yes,' I said. 'Isn't it pretty to think so?'"
Jake has come to terms with the fact that he is to be a loner, that he needs to be alone.

The Sun Also Rises is considered not only one of Ernest Hemingway's best books, but also one of the greatest classics of modern literature. I believe that the book is so powerful to read because the author underwent a catharsis in writing the novel. In writing the novel, Hemingway attacks his alcoholism and takes the first steps towards dealing with it. It is from that natural process that the reader is able to feel the emotions in the book. The language is curt yet true. The book is great.

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Timeless Classic

Our book club selected The Sun Also Rises as last month's reading selection. Several had read the book years ago and were now re-reading it, while others had never read it. It was not everyone's favorite book, but we all admired Hemmingway's ability to convey complex characters and undercurrents using the simplest of words and spare writing style. It is Hemingway's enduring magic.

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