Hemingway Among the Bohemians: A Generational Reading of The Sun Also Rises

Abstract

This article investigates how The Sun Also Rises speaks for its generation both thematically and formally. Hemingway undertakes narrative experiments that expand the reader's linguistic range of reference, making available to subsequent generations a modernist bohemian sensibility. The article also explores ways in which readers have assessed the novel according to the standard of fidelity to a murky but compelling bohemian ideal (by engaging in roman à clef criticism and literary biography).