He was 25 when he wrote this. What a God. Honestly, I thought he was in his late 40's or something. It's so well composed and human. Beautiful characters.
>Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He wrote the first draft of The Sun Also Rises in 1925, completing it in roughly six weeks.
>>25282524>Arthur Schopenhauer was 25 years old when he published his doctoral dissertation titled "On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason" in 1813
Never liked Hemingway much but I’ll give him another try after I finish what I’m reading and the book being delivered tomorrow
>>25282524Seems like the mid 20s are when most people reach the peak of their natural genius. Looking back at my life, I could say this was true for me.
>>25282524It's a roman a clef, mostly reporting. Not really an act of imagination.
Hemingway is glorified self help
>>25282685Exactly this. With a little search you can find the real-life people the characters are based on. Or, you can simply read Lesley M M. Blume's "Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises."
>>25282616Hemingway was 30 when he wrote his best work.
>>25282616>Seems like the mid 20s are when most people reach the peak of their natural genius.For "conceptual genius" yeah. Like if your genius relies on just seeing a common thing in a different way.The genius behind The Sun Also Rises is just going, yeah it might have appeared in so-and-so way in real life, but this book is what really happened. It's sort of like how you can be really stressed out / on drugs / on drug withdrawal / meditating and get some really intense and weird dreams sometimes that call back to childhood. Dreams that are super wavy and abstract, but have this bizarre undercurrent of truth and reality to them that you struggle to explain.
>>25282524He peaked at "a farewell to arms" and his other works are mediocre. Gabriel García Márquez defeats him in writing spaniard romance.
>>25282524Yup, it's too late for me.
>>25283939Too bad I have such a negative view of Spanish. I hate my language
>>25283854No I have never had the experience with dreams
>>25282524Beautiful characters? This was years ago so I don't remember all the details, but after finishing it it left such a bad taste in my mouth because all of the characters, every single one, were all so unlikable and petty in such realistic ways and the experience of reading about them was wholly unpleasant
>>25282524Just finished it, don't understand the hype. The descriptions of the fishing trip and the festival are comfy, some of the characters are interesting, but otherwise there was a lot of boring cafe-sitting.
