![]() ![]() For example, the characters engage in bull-fighting, which is presented as an idealized drama: The matador faces death and, in so doing, creates a moment of existential nothingness, broken when he vanquishes the possibility of death by killing the bull (Stoltzfus, 2005). Naturally, themes of love, death, renewal in nature, and the nature of masculinity are heavily investigated. ![]() Hemingway proposes that the "Lost Generation," considered to have been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I, was resilient and strong. ![]() The fictional plot depicts a love story between war-wounded and impotent Jake Barnes and the promiscuous divorcà e Lady Brett Ashley, but the novel is a roman à clef the characters are based on real people and the action is based on real events. Though it initially received mixed reviews, it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" (Meyers, 1985). The Sun Also Rises was published by Scribner's in 1926, and a year later in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape under the title Fiesta. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, owner name. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jack Lonsdale with best wishes Ernest Hemingway Ritz 10/9/56." On this date, Hemingway was in Madrid for a bull fight with his wife Mary. Later printing of Hemingway's first major novel published as Fiesta in the United Kingdom. ![]()
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