The Sun Also Rises

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The Sun Also Rises is a landmark modernist novel by Ernest Hemingway that follows a group of disillusioned expatriates in post–World War I Europe, capturing the themes of the Lost Generation.

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instanceOf Lost Generation literature
modernist novel
novel
author Ernest Hemingway
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstEditionFormat hardcover
followedBy Men Without Women
genre literary fiction
modernist literature
hasAdaptation The Sun Also Rises self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Sun Also Rises (1957 film)

The Sun Also Rises self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Sun Also Rises (1984 television film)
inspiredBy Ernest Hemingway's experiences in the 1920s in Europe
Hemingway's trip to Pamplona in 1925
literaryMovement Lost Generation
Modernism
literarySignificance defining work of Lost Generation literature
landmark of 20th-century American literature
mainCharacter Bill Gorton
Jake Barnes
Lady Brett Ashley
Mike Campbell
Robert Cohn
motif bullfighting
drinking
travel
narrativePointOfView first-person
narrator Jake Barnes
originalLanguage English
precededBy In Our Time
publicationDate 1926
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
setInCountry France
Spain
setInPeriod post–World War I
setting Pamplona
Paris
the San Fermín festival
style Hemingway iceberg theory
surface form: Hemingway's iceberg theory

economical prose
theme disillusionment
exile and expatriate life
impotence and emotional paralysis
masculinity
Lost Generation
surface form: the Lost Generation

the aftermath of war
the emptiness of hedonism
unrequited love
titleOrigin Biblical epigraph from Ecclesiastes

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this entity surface form: The Sun Also Rises (1957 film)
The Sun Also Rises hasAdaptation The Sun Also Rises self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Sun Also Rises (1984 television film)
Lost Generation hasNotableWork The Sun Also Rises
Hadley Richardson inspiredWork The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway notableWork The Sun Also Rises
Charles Scribner's Sons notableWorkPublished The Sun Also Rises
Leo Tover workedOn The Sun Also Rises