Classics · MelancholicA group of American and British expatriates travels from Paris to Pamplona for the San Fermín festival
The Sun Also Rises
Expatriates leave Paris for the bullfights in Pamplona
Jake Barnes is an American expatriate journalist whose war wound prevents him from having sex. He travels with friends from Paris to Pamplona, Spain, for the San Fermín festival, where they watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. He becomes entangled in romantic rivalries and social tensions centered on Lady Brett Ashley, a twice-divorced Englishwoman. Charles Scribner's Sons published it in the United States on 22 October 1926, and Jonathan Cape published it in the UK in 1927 as Fiesta.
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Who
Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Mike Campbell, Bill Gorton and Pedro Romero.
World
Mid-1920s Paris, then the San Fermín festival in Pamplona.
What makes it different
It is a roman à clef: Robert Cohn is based on Harold Loeb and Brett on Duff Twysden. The prose is sparse, in Hemingway's iceberg style.
Feel
Restrained and wistful.
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Further reading
- The Sun Also RisesWikipedia