"You don t know Paree!": Cultural Indifference in The Sun Also Rises

Book chapter

Frank Mehring

Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature, pp.337-359

2006

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Title: "You don t know Paree!": Cultural Indifference in The Sun Also Rises
Author/Creator: Frank Mehring
Publication Details: Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature, pp.337-359
Annotation: Finds the real Paris absent in the novel, contending that Hemingway intentionally drew on clich d images of the American tourist in Paris to emphasize the Lost Generation s cultural indifference and to challenge the reader regarding his own cultural apathy.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015131952803691