American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1413 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The Sun Also Rises*
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The idea
Expatriates drift from Paris cafés to the bullfights at Pamplona, drinking, quarrelling and failing to say what they mean. The novel is the lost generation's own book, and its famous exchange about how a man went bankrupt, gradually and then suddenly, describes more than money.
In practice
Paris, Pamplona, and nothing said directly.
Where people slip
The emotion is entirely in the omissions.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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