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This book explores the Lost Generation of young people living in the aftermath of World War I, but what stood out to me is how relevant the themes are for today’s youth. Millennials and Gen Z, nearly a century later, face similar struggles with angst, trauma, loneliness, excessive consumption, and false friendships. There is a lot of drinking and bullfighting, yes, but what resonates with me is how the characters hint at their fears and insecurities. Characters like Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, and Harold Loeb feel eerily modern because their problems are so familiar.
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12 authors picked The Sun Also Rises as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Jake Barnes is a man whose war wound has made him unable to have sex—and the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley. Jake is an expatriate American journalist living in Paris, while Brett is a twice-divorced Englishwoman with bobbed hair and numerous love affairs, and embodies the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. The novel is a roman à clef: the characters are based on real people in Hemingway's circle, and the action is based on real events, particularly Hemingway's life in Paris in the 1920s and a trip to Spain in 1925 for the Pamplona festival and fishing in the…
