Works of Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

Author: [US] Hemingway Zhao Jingnan
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: American youth Barnes suffers a spinal cord injury in World War I and loses his sexual ability. After the war, while working as a journalist in Paris, he falls in love with the British woman Ashley. The woman is solely obsessed with pleasure, while he can only drown his sorrows in alcohol. They, along with a group of friends, go to Pamplona, Spain, to attend the bullfighting festival, seeking spiritual stimulation. The woman rejects the desperate pursuit of the Jewish youth Cohen but falls for the young bullfighter Romero, who is only nineteen. However, after spending some time together, due to the significant age gap between them and the woman's unwillingness to ruin the innocent youth's future, their relationship ends unhappily. In the end, the woman returns to Barnes's side, though both are aware that they can never truly be together. This is Hemingway's , and through it, the author becomes the spokesperson for the "Lost Generation" and establishes the unique Hemingway style of writing with this book.