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  • The blurb on the back of my edition states "This is...the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation." In fact, every character in the book, from the impotent protagonist Barnes to the self-destructive femme fatale Brett, is lost in his or her o ... Continue

    The blurb on the back of my edition states "This is...the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation." In fact, every character in the book, from the impotent protagonist Barnes to the self-destructive femme fatale Brett, is lost in his or her own way. This is set against the backdrop of cosmopolitan joi de vivre (in France) and decadent hedonism (in Spain).

    

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  • Read in the Modern American Novel course I had as an undergraduate. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

    

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The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation. This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona represents a dramatic step forward for Hemingway's evolving style. Featuring Left Bank Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain, the story is about the flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes. In an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions, this is the Lost Generation.

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