【微书评】《太阳照样升起》（The Sun Also Rises）

【推荐理由】

《太阳照样升起》（The Sun Also Rises）是海明

威的第一部长篇小说，作者藉此成为“迷惘的一代”的

代言人，并以此书开创了海明威式的独特文风。美国青

年巴恩斯在第一次世界大战中脊椎受伤，失去性能力，

战后在巴黎任记者时与英国人阿施利夫人相爱，夫人一

味追求享乐，而他只能借酒浇愁。两人和一帮男女朋友

去西班牙潘普洛纳参加斗牛节，追求精神刺激。夫人拒

绝了犹太青年巴恩斯的苦苦追求，却迷上了年仅十九岁

的斗牛士罗梅罗。然而，在相处了一段日子以后，由于

双方年龄实在悬殊，而阿施利夫人又不忍心毁掉纯洁青

年的前程，这段恋情黯然告终。夫人最终回到了巴恩斯

身边，尽管双方都清楚，彼此永远也不能真正地结合在

一起。而《太阳照样升起》是海明威的第一部长篇小说，

为他树立了杰出文学家和重要作家的声名。小说言语精简，意绪沉沉，准确捕捉并界定了一个时代的风貌，书中“迷惘一代”一词旋即被用来指称挣扎在一战后精神废墟里的年轻一代。

作者欧内斯特·米勒尔·海明威，（1899—1961）美国著名作家，20世纪20年代美国“迷惘的一代”最重要的代表作家。海明威出生在美国芝加哥附近的一个小镇，父亲是位医生。他从小对打猎、捕鱼、绘画和音乐等充满兴趣，尤其是渔猎几乎伴随他的一生，对他的创作及特殊性格的形成产生了重要影响。第一次世界大战爆发后，他来到意大利战场参战，身上多处负伤。战后，他作为美国驻欧洲记者长期居住巴黎，并在这段时期写下大量文学作品，显示出杰出的才华。他的代表作品还有《永别了，武器》、《丧钟为谁而鸣》、《白象似的群山》、《尼克·亚当斯的故事》等。

原文来自 必克英语

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第二篇：Bookreport——The Sun Also Rises

Bookreport

英文4班

14号

王媛媛

Bookreport---The Sun Also Rises

Background

The book is written by Ernest Miller Hemingway, who once sailed to Europe to serve as a volunteer for the Red Cross during World WarⅠ. On the front, Hemingway suffered a serious injury. This incident provided the inspiration for his novel. After returning from the war, in 1921,he beame the European correspondent for the Toronto Daily Star and moved to Paris. There, Hemingway became friennds with some famous prominent expatriate writers and artists living postwar Paris. Hemingway’s reputation began to grow both as a journalist and as an author of fiction. His novel The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926, established him as one of the preeminent writers of his day.

Content

The Sun Also Rises set in Paris, it decribes the lives of some so-called Lost Generation, who once fought and worked in the World WarⅠ. After the war, they suffered great moral and psychological aimlessness.

There are three main characters in the novel. Jake is an American veteran of World WarⅠworking as a journalist in Paris, where he and his friends engage in an endless round of decadent drinking and parties. Although Jake is the most stable of his friends, he struggles with anguish

over his love for Lady Brett Ashley, his impotence, and the moral vacuum that resulted from the war. In fact, Lady Brett Ashley loves Jake, but she is unwilling to commit to a relationship with him because it will mean giving up sex. One of Jake’s fiends, Cohn, is quite taken with Brett, and he gets angry when Jake tells him that Brett plans to marry Mike. While, Brett is unwilling to commit fully to any of the men who become infatuated with her, though she has affirs with a number of them. In the end, Jake seems to have reached a more realistic appreciation of their situation as well as his own.

My Comment

Before the novel opens, Hemingway quotes two epigraphs. The first one is “You are all the lost generation”. The other one is “The world edures, and the sun continues to rise and set despite the inevitable passage of each human generation into death”. These two epigraphs produces an ambivalent tone. On the one hand, thre is hope, because there will be a new generation after the aimless generation that populates The Sun Also Rises, On the other hand, there is bitter irony, since every generation is lost, in one sense because, each generation will eventually die.

In this novel, Hemingway portrays the lives of Lost Generation, the group of men and women whose early adulthood was consumed by World WarⅠ.This horifick conflict in War, set new standers for death and immorality. It shattered many people’s beliefs in traditional values of love,

faith, and manhood. Without these long-held notions to rely on, their lives become aimless.

Nearly all of Jake’s friends are alcoholics. Wherever they happen to be, they drink, usually to excess. Often, their drinking is a form of escaptiom. Drunkenness allow Jake and his friends to endure lives severely lacking in affection and purpose. However alcohol frequently brings out the worst in their mental and emotional turmoil.

The coversations among Jake and his friends are rarely direct or hoest. Their friendship is false. They hide true feelings behind a mask of civility. Although the legacy of the war toments them all, they are unable to communicate this torment. They can talk about the war only in an excessively humours or trite fashion. The moments of honest, genuine communication generally arise only when the characters are feeling their worst. Expressions of true affection, on the other hand, are limited almost to all of their coversations.

Although Hemingway never explicitly states that Jake and his friends’ lives are aimless, or that this aimlessness is a result of the war. Instead, he implies these ideas through his portrayal of the characters’ emotional and mental lives. These stand in stark conrast to the characters’ surface action. Jake and his friends’ constant carousing does not make them happy. Very often, their merrymaking is joyless and driven by alcohol. At best , it allows them not to think about their innner lives or

about the war. Although they spend nearly all of their time partying in one way or another, they remain sorrowful or unfulfilled. Hence, their drinking and dancing is just a futile distraction, a purposeless activity characteristic of a wandering, aimless life.