Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Robert E. Fleming (University of New Mexico)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1926

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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The Sun Also Rises

(1926) was Ernest Hemingway's first full-length novel. Coming after his first American collection of stories,

In Our Time

(1925), and his short novel parodying Sherwood Anderson,

The Torrents of Spring

(1926),

The Sun Also Rises

established Hemingway's reputation not only as a major novelist of the Modernist movement but as a spokesman for the Lost Generation. The latter was a title that the author did not necessarily welcome.

The Sun Also Rises is a story narrated by foreign correspondent Jake Barnes concerning his relationship with Lady Brett Ashley. Because of a war wound suffered in World War I Jake is unable to consummate a physical relationship with Brett, who fell in love with him when she met him in a military hospital. She in turn has affairs with novelist

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Citation: Fleming, Robert E.. "The Sun Also Rises". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 July 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7857, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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