The Sun Also Rises (AmazonClassics Edition)

De: Ernest Hemingway

Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne

In the aftermath of the First World War, Paris offers a liberating waystation for expatriate newspaperman Jake Barnes. Jake is a casualty of the war, and his disillusionment would be complete were it not for his relationship with the fast-living, twice-divorced Englishwoman Brett Ashley. Along with a small collection of other dissolute expats, Jake and Brett travel from the cafés of Paris to the wild fiestas of Pamplona on a desperate quest for fulfillment.

The Sun Also Rises paints a vivid portrait of a generation just beginning to grapple with the emotional and spiritual fallout of war, and it remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most moving and captivating works.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Sun Also Rises, this edition of The Sun Also Rises (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

probably just me

I kept waiting for something to happen.. interesting characters I guess but they just mostly whine and bicker... oh and drink. Maybe that's the point but it kind of makes for a boring read. Maybe I just expected it too much with it being Hemingway.

The language

Well read although a little dragging at times. Good characterization very clear, nice mix of tempos. overall pleasant and good feeling ftom it.

Learning Hemingway's Style

While the dialogue was lifelike and understandable, I was underwhelmed by the story, probably because my experiences as reader are very different from Hemingway's when he wrote this.

A classic work poorly narrated

The Sun Also Rises is my favorite Hemingway novel and in my top 10 overall. Unfortunately, the narrator seems utterly clueless about Jake Barnes. Barnes is smart, sad, and scarred. This narrator gives everything a goofy "gee whiz" vocal inflection, more like some rube seeing the big city for the first time than a sophisticated, cynical wounded vet turned journalist. Gave up halfway through.

Relatively subpar

The storytelling, as it usually is with Hemingway was sublime, however the content in itself lacked direction. Just many of the characters are occasionally tight in this novel the plot felt as discombobulated. Interestingly, this novel perhaps provides a view into Hemmingway’s (fictional) social desires an interests at the time

Entertaining story!

The Sun Also Rises; is the first novel by Ernest Hemingway I’ve read or listened to as an adult. To be honest when I began reading/listening, I was a little lost. But as the story progressed, I came to realize there were only two true characters – Blake and Brett - surrounded by several bit players. Had I read the book’s description I might have realized how central they were and how minor the rest of the characters were much earlier.

I listened to the Amazon Classics Edition narrated by Kirby Heyborne; his narration kept me going through some of the slower parts of the story. I’m so glad I kept going because there were parts to this story that were fantastic.

While I won’t say I’ll be revisiting this story every year as some reviewers say. I might come back to it sometime in the future just to see if the story does reveal different aspects over time.