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Fiesta (Spanish Edition)
by Ernest Hemingway

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Author: Ernest Hemingway
Edition: Paperback
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language); Spanish (Published)
Published: 2006-12
ISBN: 9875662305
Publisher: Debolsillo

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Book Review: The struggle for existence
Summary: 5 Stars

World War 1 is now over and life goes on, but for many who survived the carnage complete recovery seems impossible. Jake Barnes is an American ex-soldier now working as a journalist in Paris. His days are spent at the typewriter diligently working, and much of the night is spent walking from bar to bar to café, enjoying the scenery and drinking copious amounts of alcohol. Jake's friend Robert Cohn is an apparently successful writer of novels but inside he longs to really live life. He longs to experience life as truly 'real.' According the Jake the problem with Cohn is that he only knows life from books. Now Cohn has read the "intensely romantic" book and wants to go to South America because he is convinced that he will finally 'be alive' there. He wants Jake to come with him. Jake refuses and suggests, as an alternative, that Cohn come with him and his friend Bill Gordon on their annual trip to Pamplona in Spain. They will first spend a week fishing and then enjoy the fiesta for another week. Cohn agrees to come. Mean while Jake has run into Brett Ashley, an attractive, passionate woman who he has known since the war. Jake has a friendly but unhappy relationship with Brett as he cannot find a way to fully express his love for her. On hearing about the planned trip to Spain Brett asks if she and her current fiancé Michael can come too. Jack agrees. Mean while, however, Britt has a brief romantic liaison with Cohn. Despite this seemingly explosive web of relationships the partly sets out for Spain.

Writing after the Second World War the Existentialist philosophers stressed the need for man to live 'authentically,' that is, not lying to oneself, not sleepwalking through life without truly experiencing it. in many ways prefigures those philosophic arguments. Who in the story truly lives, at least for a while? When is Jake most truly authentic? Closely allied with this theme of authenticity is the topic of triviality. How many drunken conversation can these characters, or the reader, stand? The first quarter of this book, while the characters are still in Paris, in fact becomes boring, but Hemingway has deliberately written it this way in order to make his point. During the crazy time of the fiesta the book truly takes off and it is easy to see how this story in many ways inspired the now booming tourist trade in Pamplona. Hemingway has vividly portrayed each of his characters, but the reader must ask himself do any of them change or grow? Why, or why not?

This book was first published in 1927 and is Hemingway's first novel. It has been critically studied in some depth and acclaimed to a fair degree. If you enjoy reading this book you may also like his later works A Farewell To Arms (1929) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). In 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
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