The Sun Also Rises
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The Sun Also Rises is considered the first significant novel by Ernest Hemingway. Published in 1926, the plot centers on a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s. The book's title, selected by Hemingway's publisher, is taken from Ecclesiastes 1:5: "[The sun also ariseth]". Hemingway's own title for the novel was ¡Fiesta!, which was used in the UK and Spanish edition of the novel.
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Plot introduction
The novel is a powerful exposé of the life and values of the Lost Generation, a generation deeply scarred by World War I. The main characters are Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley. Barnes suffered an injury during World War I that makes him unable to consummate his relationship with Brett sexually.Major themes
The novel has heavy undercurrents of suppressed emotions and buried values. Its weary and aimless expatriates serve as metaphors for society's lost optimism after the war. Ironically, there is a marked silence regarding the war itself — it is a topic rarely discussed by any of the characters. A famous scene from the book, graphically describing the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, helped popularize that event in English-speaking cultures.Allusions/references to actual history, geography and current science
The novel was a roman à clef, as many of the characters were based on Hemingway and his friends who accompanied him to Spain in 1925. The character of Robert Cohn is a savage portrait of novelist Harold Loeb, who aroused the anger of Hemingway by indulging in a tryst with Lady Duff Twysden in Normandy before bringing her to Spain. Twysden was the model for Brett Ashley; Hemingway based the character of Barnes on himself.Release details
- 1926, USA, Charles Scribner's Sons, Pub date ? June 1926, hardback
- 1927, UK, Jonathan Cape, Pub date ? ? 1927, hardback (UK edition as ¡Fiesta!)
- 1980, USA, Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 0686635507, Pub date ? June 1980, paperback
- 1982, USA, Holiday House, Inc. ISBN 0684174723, Pub date ? February 1982 paperback
- 1982, USA, Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 0684800713, Pub date ? March 1982 paperback
- 1983, USA, Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 0684102501, Pub date ? March 1983, paperback
- 1984, USA, Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 0684153270, Pub date ? February 1984, hardcover
- 1990, USA, Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 1558882677, Pub date ? January, 1990, hardcover
- 1994, USA, Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 0816159696, Pub date ? February 1994, hardcover
- 1995, USA, Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 0684800713, Pub date ? January 1995 paperback
- 1996, USA, Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 0684830515, Pub date ? May 1996, hardcover
- 1999, USA, Simon & Schuster, Inc. ISBN 0808515721, Pub date ? October 1999, hardcover
Popular culture
- The 1988 film The Moderns, while not an adaptation of The Sun Also Rises, is set in 1926 Paris and revolves around Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and the writers and artists whom they knew. The central protagonists, Nick and Rachel, strongly resemble Hemingway's Jake and Brett.
| Ernest Hemingway Books |
| Novels: The Torrents of Spring | The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) | A Farewell to Arms | To Have and Have Not | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Across the River and Into the Trees | The Old Man and the Sea | Adventures of a Young Man | Islands in the Stream | The Garden of Eden |
| Non Fiction: Death in the Afternoon | Green Hills of Africa | The Dangerous Summer | A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961 | Under Kilimanjaro |
| Short Story Books: Three Stories and Ten Poems | In Our Time | Men Without Women | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Winner Take Nothing | The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories | The Essential Hemingway | The Hemingway Reader | The Nick Adams Stories | The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway | Collected Stories |
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