The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 1926
Hemingway invented his prose style here in 1926. The iceberg theory: everything below the surface, every emotion expressed in its absence. The novel defined the Lost Generation and set the template for American modernist minimalism. Its influence on how Americans write sentences was total and immediate.
The case against
Robert Cohn absorbs a streak of antisemitism the novel never questions, and Brett is less a woman than a wound the men pass around. Between the famous sentences: drinking, fishing, more drinking. Imitators have made the style itself feel like parody, which is unfair to Hemingway but still your problem on page eighty.
Literary Fiction · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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