Spring Semester Pleasure Reading

So It`s time to choose a new book to read. Here comes The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. The first book of The Sun Also Rises is set in mid-1920s in Paris.

On the surface, the novel is a love story, but many other themes revolve around it, for example, the aftermath of war, the problem of identity, relationships with loved ones, the problem of the Lost Generation and the Roaring Twenties.

The main characters of the story are:

Jake Barnes — the protagonist and narrator of the novel — is a young American expatriate working in a Paris newspaper office. He is a veteran of WWI and has an injury from it.

Brett Ashely, who is fiancéed to Mike Campbell and is the strongest, most conventionally “masculine” character in the novel, dominating her lovers and manipulating them like a bull-fighter.

Robert Cohn is a Jewish novelist from Princeton, Cohn the only central male character not a war veteran, and perhaps because of this he is the only one whose values have not been fully compromised.

The language of the book is very light, you easily jump from line to line, sometimes bumping into outdated phrasal verbs. The book has an interesting thing: while the story is full of descriptions and sometimes adda even the smallest detail in the character’s biography, the dialogues, on the contrary, are very short. Moreover, you will almost never see the author write the phrase “s/he said, noted, sighed.”

In general, I have long wanted to read this book and look at the history from a certain angle, in addition, it touches on topics of interest to me. I would like to share this experience with others, so I hope that someone would like to join me.