Selected for Classic Book Club, March 2013
Finished Mo 3/18/13
This is a colorful novel, and the descriptions of 'The Running of The Bulls' at Pamplona is vivid and well written. But, I found the conversations and dialog hopelessly banal, until I realized that Hemingway is writing the story of a bunch of drunks. This is an insightful profile of an alcoholic. The alcoholic talks nonsense, is self-centered and vain, and believes himself to be the very center of the universe. And, this is exactly how the characters in the novel behave.
This is not so much about 'The Lost Generation', but a few of the drunks that were part of it.
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