The Sun Also Rises (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

In the aftermath of the First World War, Paris offers a liberating waystation for expatriate newspaperman Jake Barnes. Jake is a casualty of the war, and his disillusionment would be complete were it not for his relationship with the fast-living, twice-divorced Englishwoman Brett Ashley. Along with a small collection of other dissolute expats, Jake and Brett travel from the cafés of Paris to the wild fiestas of Pamplona on a desperate quest for fulfillment.

The Sun Also Rises paints a vivid portrait of a generation just beginning to grapple with the emotional and spiritual fallout of war, and it remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most moving and captivating works.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Sun Also Rises, this edition of The Sun Also Rises (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Learning Hemingway's Style

While the dialogue was lifelike and understandable, I was underwhelmed by the story, probably because my experiences as reader are very different from Hemingway's when he wrote this.

Hemingway’s iceberg style appeals to me—I like his nuanced approach.

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway follows American Jake Barnes as he navigates post-world-war-l Europe with a group of friends called the “lost generation “ by Gertrude Stein.

The story appears to be autobiographical about the time Hemingway spent in Paris and Spain in similar fashion. The group spends most for their time drinking, eating, staying up late, and wasting away.

The group decides to visit Spain under the guise of going fishing. Jake and his friend Bill do the fishing. They spend some time where Hemingway describes nature wonderfully well with exact clarity.

The friends catch up to the two fishermen, and they decide to go to the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona. Here Hemingway teaches us about the beauty and grace of bullfighting. He revers it and depicts it as a source of strength, honesty, and courage.

I would say this book is similar to other books of the time and generation, The Great Gatsby came to mind. The group just meanders through life without real consequences to anything except their souls.

Hemingway is brilliant. His sentences are stripped of everything except intended meaning. This allows the reader to follow clearly and imagine infinitely. I greatly enjoy his style. This story, in particular, isn’t life changing. It’s more pastoral, more a slice of life of the lost generation.

The language

Well read although a little dragging at times. Good characterization very clear, nice mix of tempos. overall pleasant and good feeling ftom it.

probably just me

I kept waiting for something to happen.. interesting characters I guess but they just mostly whine and bicker... oh and drink. Maybe that's the point but it kind of makes for a boring read. Maybe I just expected it too much with it being Hemingway.

A classic work poorly narrated

The Sun Also Rises is my favorite Hemingway novel and in my top 10 overall. Unfortunately, the narrator seems utterly clueless about Jake Barnes. Barnes is smart, sad, and scarred. This narrator gives everything a goofy "gee whiz" vocal inflection, more like some rube seeing the big city for the first time than a sophisticated, cynical wounded vet turned journalist. Gave up halfway through.