Summary
Ernest Hemingway: And the sun rises
Translated by Antun Šoljan
The great American writer and literary innovator Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961), that soldier, war correspondent, journalist, fisherman, African hunter, lover of bullfighting, drunkard and lover, and above all a writer of great professional ethics, hardly needs to be specially introduced to our readership. Perhaps it is only necessary to say that, apart from his famous short stories, his peculiar, objective and distant style came to the fore most in the novel A sunce uzlidi, that exemplary book called a lost generation.
Dazed by the First World War, feeling robbed of all the values of life that they understood as illusions after the terrible war experiences, Hemingway's heroes can no longer accept any false ideology and refuse to accept the society they have seen through, they refuse to live for anything but the moment. In spite of everything, they develop their own special ethics, which in short reads: endure even if it is meaningless, you endure even to the point of failure. This apparently unsentimental and yet muted pathetic attitude of rebellion gives Hemingway's heroes the glow of sincere and convincing life courage.
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