![]() ![]() ![]() But the Lost Generation was the forerunner of modern youthful angst banners.” "Similar umbrella identities would be ascribed to each era’s under-thirty crowd: the Beat Generation, Generation X, the Millennials, and so on. Blume’s vivid account reveals the inner circle of the Lost Generation as we have never seen it before, and shows how it still influences what we read and how we think about youth, sex, love, and excess. He made himself into a death-courting, bull-fighting aficionado a hard-drinking, short-fused literary genius and an expatriate bon vivant. Lesley Blume resurrects the explosive, restless landscape of 1920s Paris and Spain and reveals how Hemingway helped create his own legend. ![]() But the full story of Hemingway’s legendary rise has remained untold until now. This revolutionary work redefined modern literature as much as it did his peers, who would forever after be called the Lost Generation. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip’s maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into his groundbreaking novel The Sun Also Rises. In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town’s infamous running of the bulls. The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world ![]()
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