The Story
The making of Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary worldIn the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the towns infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trips maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into his groundbreaking novel The Sun Also Rises. This revolutionary work redefined modern literature as much as it did his peers, who would forever after be called the Lost Generation. But the full story of Hemingways legendary rise has remained untold until now. Lesley Blume resurrects the explosive, restless landscape of 1920s Paris and Spain and reveals how Hemingway helped create his own legend. He made himself into a deathcourting, bullfighting aficionado; a harddrinking, shortfused literary genius; and an expatriate bon vivant. Blumes vivid account reveals the inner circle of the Lost Generation as we have never seen it before, and shows how it still influences what we read and how we think about youth, sex, love, and excess.
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The making of Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary worldIn the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the towns infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trips maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into his groundbreaking novel The Sun Also Rises. This revolutionary work redefined modern literature as much as it did his peers, who would forever after be called the Lost Generation. But the full story of Hemingways legendary rise has remained untold until now. Lesley Blume resurrects the explosive, restless landscape of 1920s Paris and Spain and reveals how Hemingway helped create his own legend. He made himself into a deathcourting, bullfighting aficionado; a harddrinking, shortfused literary genius; and an expatriate bon vivant. Blumes vivid account reveals the inner circle of the Lost Generation as we have never seen it before, and shows how it still influences what we read and how we think about youth, sex, love, and excess.
