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Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Many readers and critics consider Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, to be his best. Using the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona as a backdrop for his story, Hemingway focuses on American and British expatriates, who have recently arrived in Spain from Paris. While on the surface a love story, The Sun Also Rises is also a morality tale of World War I's "Lost Generation." Hemingway's characters represent the lives of many people who came of age during the war and were left with a lack of purpose and meaning. As with many of Hemingway's works, the novel was simultaneously praised and reviled. The Atlantic called the characters "amazingly real and alive." His mother thought otherwise, saying in a letter: "Every page fills me with a sick loathing" |