In another scene, Jake comes across a character called Harvey Stone, who has clearly been on a bender and shows no signs of slowing down the men drink together and talk about the literary scene on the café terrace. Hemingway himself was a regular one expat remembered him turning up there in the mornings and pushing through the terrace tables and chairs “like a prowling animal.” In The Sun Also Rises, protagonist Jake Barnes goes there with Lady Brett Ashley, whose beauty immediately creates a stir she is immediately besieged by a rhapsodic little painter and a champagne-pouring count. Here is a list of my ten favorite The Sun Also Rises pilgrimage sites:įounded in 1920, the Select was one of the primary Paris settings in The Sun Also Rises the characters flit in and out constantly. (Hemingway made some necessary adjustments after that.)ĭespite the passage of nearly a century, there are still a surprising number of surviving places from the Sun world that aficionados can visit today, in Paris and beyond - and each evokes the novel and the period in a poignant way. Scott Fitzgerald had warned Hemingway that it was starting to read like a guidebook to Montparnasse. Yet The Sun Also Rises had captured the moment for posterity - so much so that F. The scene crescendoed in the mid-1920s and ended abruptly with the 1929 stock market crash. Many expats “went completely berserk the minute they hit Montparnasse,” recalled a bartender from the Dingo, a popular dive bar at the time.
This was, after all, the book that branded the Lost Generation, and its members arguably partied harder than anyone since the bacchanals of ancient Rome.
Blume is the author of Everybody Behaves Badly, available now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Įrnest Hemingway’s 1926 debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, depicted 1920’s expatriate Paris at its most colorful - and its most debauched.
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