Drinking in France
Drinking in France

Summary/Abstract: Drinking is what Jake Barnes, Hemingway’s alter ego, does in The Sun Also Rises. As a rule, he also orbits round Lady Brett Ashley, but basically he drinks, orders drinks, talks with his ‘gentry’ and leaves out ‘the others’. Although no comments and no analyses come his way, the ‘hard-boiled’ language, the pointilliste understatement and the dialogue with a sense of immediacy get us immersed into his soul and certainly into the intimacy of the ‘lost generation.’

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