The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, which follows a group of British and American expatriates in Paris as they decide to travel to Pamplona for the bull-running fiesta. Against this vivid backdrop, Hemingway depicts the suffering and disillusionment of a generation which grew up in the shadow of the First World War, and explores themes such as jealousy, passion and masculinity. The Sun Also Rises is seen as an important early Modernist work, and Hemingway was one of the movement’s most important writers. His best-known works include A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BrightSummaries.com
• Release date: Mar 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9782808013185

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AMERICAN WRITER

Born in Illinois in 1899.

Died in Idaho in 1961.

Notable works:

A Farewell to Arms (1929), early Modernist novel

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), war novel

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987), posthumous collection

Ernest Hemingway is regarded as one of the first, most influential American Modernists. Between 1920 and the mid-1950s, he published seven novels, six short story collections and two works of non-fiction. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his last major work of fiction, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), and in 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Hemingway is remembered for developing the ‘iceberg theory’, an economical, minimalist style alternatively known as the ‘theory of omission’. As he writes in Death in the Afternoon (1932), the dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water (1999: 154). By focusing on surface elements of the story (just one-eighth), Hemingway believed that the underlying significance of the narrative could shine through more poignantly and powerfully, despite not being obviously referred to. As Hemingway’s iceberg style aims to capture the truth, his novels are considered to be works of realism. Thematically, Hemingway often uses a setting of conflict to examine human love, lust, fear, loss, guilt and betrayal.

EARLY MODERNIST NOVEL

Genre: novel

Reference edition: Hemingway, E. (2004) Fiesta: