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| | LOST Magazine - The Sun Also Rises |
 | | The horror of such a wound represented the greatest of all horrors, and in The Sun Also Rises Hemingway was consciously confronting it. |
 | | The fundamental act of masculinity, sexual penetration, is denied Jake, and the whole of the rest of masculinity which, for Hemingway, flowed from it — the bulls, the fights, the boxing, the hunting, the drinking, the bullshitting — is rendered pointless, a dreadful joke. |
 | | The Torrents of Spring (1926) is technically his first long fiction, but it was a youthful exercise in parody (of Sherwood Anderson): The Sun Also Rises was the beginning of the Hemingway style and his mature novelistic career. |
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