Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Video 1

This lecture introduces the themes of The Sun Also Rises, with an emphasis opening Part of the book set in Paris.  Prof. Yenor gives a treatment especially of the setting of the novel, with an emphasis on the situation as it reflects manliness.  Hemingway is a novelist of the meaningless universe, with the hopes that human beings will buck up and try to live courageously in the face of an ugly, meaningless world.  He writes in an ugly way while expressing uniquely ugly truths, so called.

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