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Rereading 'A Sun Also Rises'

11/29/2014

Began rereading ‘A Sun Also Rises’ perhaps my favorite Hemingway novel. I have read it once or twice in the past - maybe once a decade. As Hemingway’s first novel it really is the gateway drug into the 1920s tragedy novels: Sun, Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. I am five chapters in and there’s plenty of important history points that I would not have picked up before.

Jake doesn’t want to leave Paris. And he is sad, anyway.

Brett is sad, darling, very-very-sad not being with Jake.

There is a cool little art-design website with a bunch of Sun Also Rises inspired art.

I found a picture of the version that I am reading. Its a good old worn copy from my mother-in-law.

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Christopher Gennari, Ph.D is a Full Professor of History at Camden County College.

He received his doctorate in History from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2010.

His Dissertation is titled "Invasion, Insurgency and Intervention: Sweden's Wars in Poland, Prussia and Denmark 1654-1658." And was the first english language monograph on the topic of Charles X and Sweden's military actions from 1654-1660.

The dissertation analyses Sweden's wars during the Second Northern War in which it won the initial war, fought a religiously inspired insurgency against their occupation, and then had to cope with the intervention of other states.

He has published articles on the use of technology in archival research, the Construction of the Suffolk County Vietnam Veterans Memorial and several book reviews for academic journals.

He has presented papers at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conferences on Swedish Counterinsurgency during the Second Northern War and on Swedish “Soft Power” during the reign of Charles X Gustav.

He has also presented papers on Soft Power in Game of Thrones at the MAPACA conference, and given a guest lecture on Sweden’s invasion of Poland in 1655 at NYMAS.

Recently he participated in a NEH Grant with the Community College of Philadelphia and the East-West Center – to bring more Asian Studies to Community Colleges.

Liverpool F.C. Knows......Fallout.

Rereading 'A Sun Also Rises'

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