History Literature / Thesunalsorises

''The Sun Also Rises'' is a 1926 novel by Creator/ErnestHemingway.

The novel entered the US public domain on January 1, 2022.

!! Tropes in this work include:

* DysfunctionJunction: The expatriates are all psychological messes. Jake is tormented by the war wound that has left him sexually impotent and unable to give Brett, whom he loves, the only thing she really wants from a man. Brett's ex-husband, Lord Ashley, is implied to have abused her, prompting her to jump from bed to bed in search of fulfillment but never finding it. Cohn has spent his life trying too hard to be liked and simply gets on everyone's nerves instead. Mike has nothing even resembling financial stability in his past or future, and gets stinking drunk on a regular basis to help him forget this. Bill is the only member of the group to even approach functionality.

Jake Barnes, American veteran of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, drifts around Paris, meeting random people and disillusioned with the world around him. He is in love with the lady Brett Ashley, but then [[FemmeFatale so is everyone else]]. He is also followed around by Robert Cohn, a Jew with a chip on his shoulder and a weak personality. Jake learns that Cohn is infatuated with Brett and that she slept with him. Jake goes fishing with his friend Bill Gorton in Burguete, and then rejoins Cohn, Brett and Brett's fiancé Mike Campbell in Pamplona for the annual Running of the Bulls. Brett seduces an up-and-coming bullfighter, the 19-year-old Pedro Romero, whose [[TechnicianVsPerformer genuine skill]] puts the others to shame. Cohn gets pissed off, beats up Mike and Jake, and then Romero, and then flees the country. Romero, despite having gotten quite beat up, fights flawlessly in the ring, and then scampers off to Madrid with Brett. Soon, however, Brett telegrams Jake and asks him to retrieve her, as she has forced Romero to dump her for fear of ruining him. Brett sighs regretfully that she and Jake would've been so good together, and Jake replies--[[CharacterDevelopment with just a tinge of cynicism]]--that it's nice to think so. The end.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: ''The Sun Also Rises'' derives its name from Literature/TheBible, from Ecclesiastes 1:5 ("The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose").

A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was made in 1957, directed by Henry King and starring Creator/TyronePower as Jake Barnes, Creator/AvaGardner as Brett Ashley, Creator/MelFerrer as Robert Cohn, and Creator/ErrolFlynn as Mike Campbell. Hemingway [[DisownedAdaptation disliked it so much]] he walked out of the theater after 25 minutes. There was also a TV {{miniseries}} adaptation on Creator/{{NBC}} in 1984, starring Creator/HartBochner as Jake, Creator/JaneSeymourActress as Brett, Creator/RobertCarradine as Cohn, and Ian Charleson as Campbell.

A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was made in 1957, directed by Henry King and starring Creator/TyronePower as Jake Barnes, Creator/AvaGardner as Brett Ashley, Creator/MelFerrer as Robert Cohn, and Creator/ErrolFlynn as Mike Campbell. Hemingway [[CreatorBacklash disliked it so much]] he walked out of the theater after 25 minutes. There was also a TV {{miniseries}} adaptation on Creator/{{NBC}} in 1984, starring Creator/HartBochner as Jake, Creator/JaneSeymourActress as Brett, Creator/RobertCarradine as Cohn, and Ian Charleson as Campbell.

A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was made in 1957, directed by Henry King and starring Creator/TyronePower as Jake Barnes, Creator/AvaGardner as Brett Ashley, Creator/MelFerrer as Robert Cohn, and Creator/ErrolFlynn as Mike Campbell. Hemingway [[CreatorBacklash disliked it so much]] he walked out of the theater after 25 minutes. There was also a TV {{miniseries}} adaptation on Creator/{{NBC}} in 1984, starring Creator/HartBochner as Jake, Creator/JaneSeymour as Brett, Creator/RobertCarradine as Cohn, and Ian Charleson as Campbell.

[[caption-width-right:350:Cover of the first edition, with illustration by Cleonike Damianakes.]]

* RomanAClef: Jake is based on Creator/ErnestHemingway himself, while the other members of his social circle are based on fellow expatriates who lived in Paris at the same time as Hemingway and his wife Hadley in the 1920s. Cohn was based on Harold Loeb (a scion of the Guggenheim family on his mother's side), Frances on Loeb's friend Kitty Cannell, Brett on Mary Duff, Lady Twysden (a former member of the English aristocracy), Mike on Pat Guthrie, and Bill on both Donald Ogden Stewart and Bill Smith (a fellow writer and a fellow fishing enthusiast, respectively).

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