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"Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced."
-- "New York World" --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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My favourite book by Hemingway,
By Morris (Cote d'Azur) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic) (Paperback)
I recently read this novel again, and again I found it an evocative, mesmerising, and absolutely brilliant description of Paris and Spain in the interwar years.
Hemingway was a master at tight yet superb prose. He really could conjure up the dusty ride on top of a bus, on the road in Northern Spain, the peasants passing round the skin full of wine. He puts you right there, sitting outside at the cafe during the Fiesta, everyone getting drunk, the fireworks going off, the young men taking their chances as they run in front of the bulls. Hemingway was a genius, a term used much too frequently and easily today. I also recomend the biography 'Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences' by James R. Mellow. Gives the reader a better understanding of the world in which he lived.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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A bitter-sweet tale of love, lust and lost opportunities,
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This review is from: Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)
Set in the mid-1920s, the story deals with the 'lost generation' of American and British expatriates who have settled in Paris to live in a moral wasteland of drunkenness and promiscuity. Centering on the relationship between its narrator, Jake Barnes, an American journalist rendered sexually impotent by a wound suffered during World War I, and Lady Brett Ashley, the queen of the pleasure-seekers, it explores with great pathos the anguish and inadequacy of love when robbed of its physical expression, and of the latter in the absence of an emotional attachment. In true Hemingway style, drinking, fishing and the bull-fight provide the framework. Yet its crowning glory is perhaps the strength of Hemingway's vivid narrative technique which draws the reader into every scene, and induces an almost personal bond with each of the brilliantly crafted characters. Warmth literally permeates the novel, despite the various calamities of its principal actors, and those privileged to have experienced it shall surely be devouring Hemingway's works for years to come.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Hemingway at his best,
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This review is from: Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic) (Paperback)
I have read this novel several times, and believe it to be Hemingway at his best. The prose is typically sparse, and the characters are brought to life as much by what is left unsaid as by the dialogue on the page. Hemingway had the remarkable gift not only of writing effortless prose and dialogue, but of writing in such a way that forces the reader to read in between the lines. There is a lot of subtlety underlying the apparent ingenuousness of this book, and I would urge anyone interested in twentieth century literature to read this essential novel.
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