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Fiesta (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)

by Ernest Hemingway (Author)
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  • Paperback: 217 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (7 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099285037
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099285038
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 87,791 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves.

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Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hermingway as a writer of genius.

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistably beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change.

When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmospher of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A bitter-sweet tale of love, lust and lost opportunities, 28 Dec 2001
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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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, 26 Oct 2008
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'Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises' is the first Hemingway book I read many years ago and is one i've recently re-read. Partly autobiographical and based on his time in Paris, this book showcases Hemingways style perfectly. Short, well crafted sentences that portray the full feeling in any given scene without you realising how deeply you are being affected. You get a sense of feeling of the characters without truly knowing them, which is kind of true of life and a unique talent Hemingway shares. The book builds in tension as the group of friends move to Pamplona for the fiesta and bull running until it reaches it's climax. The end is in no way earth shattering, but a true example of human nature and the mistakes that we make that plague us so. I tend to feel that there are other Hemingway books to try first (Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls) but as the first book of his I read, this has a special place in my heart and is definitely well worth a read to immerse yourself in the style and book that truly made him famous. If you enjoy this then try 'A Moveable Feast' which is the memoirs of his time in Paris and a wonderful read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The struggle for existence, 2 Mar 2009
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World War 1 is now over and life goes on, but for many who survived the carnage complete recovery seems impossible. Jake Barnes is an American ex-soldier now working as a journalist in Paris. His days are spent at the typewriter diligently working, and much of the night is spent walking from bar to bar to café, enjoying the scenery and drinking copious amounts of alcohol. Jake's friend Robert Cohn is an apparently successful writer of novels but inside he longs to really live life. He longs to experience life as truly 'real.' According the Jake the problem with Cohn is that he only knows life from books. Now Cohn has read the "intensely romantic" book <The Purple Land> and wants to go to South America because he is convinced that he will finally 'be alive' there. He wants Jake to come with him. Jake refuses and suggests, as an alternative, that Cohn come with him and his friend Bill Gordon on their annual trip to Pamplona in Spain. They will first spend a week fishing and then enjoy the fiesta for another week. Cohn agrees to come. Mean while Jake has run into Brett Ashley, an attractive, passionate woman who he has known since the war. Jake has a friendly but unhappy relationship with Brett as he cannot find a way to fully express his love for her. On hearing about the planned trip to Spain Brett asks if she and her current fiancé Michael can come too. Jack agrees. Mean while, however, Britt has a brief romantic liaison with Cohn. Despite this seemingly explosive web of relationships the partly sets out for Spain.

Writing after the Second World War the Existentialist philosophers stressed the need for man to live 'authentically,' that is, not lying to oneself, not sleepwalking through life without truly experiencing it. <Fiesta> in many ways prefigures those philosophic arguments. Who in the story truly lives, at least for a while? When is Jake most truly authentic? Closely allied with this theme of authenticity is the topic of triviality. How many drunken conversation can these characters, or the reader, stand? The first quarter of this book, while the characters are still in Paris, in fact becomes boring, but Hemingway has deliberately written it this way in order to make his point. During the crazy time of the fiesta the book truly takes off and it is easy to see how this story in many ways inspired the now booming tourist trade in Pamplona. Hemingway has vividly portrayed each of his characters, but the reader must ask himself do any of them change or grow? Why, or why not?

This book was first published in 1927 and is Hemingway's first novel. It has been critically studied in some depth and acclaimed to a fair degree. If you enjoy reading this book you may also like his later works A Farewell to Arms (1929) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). In 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
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