Episode 3: The Sun Also Rises
Better Read than Dead: Literature from a Left Perspective
English - July 21, 2019 04:09 - 1 hour - 98.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 64 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Are you sick of novels that are way too chill with their symbolism? Do you want a novel that has no chill at all? That blasts its symbolism on pretty much every page? Then Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926) may be the book for you. We talk masculinity and the phallus, the First World War, bullfighting, and whether Hemingway was for real with this thing. (Answer: yeah, probably?) Also, Megan thinks “the fishing stuff is dope.”
We read the Scribner edition. For more on American modernism and economic inequality, check out Walter Benn Michaels’s Our America.
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