ABSTRACT. Drinking is what Jake Barnes, Hemingway’s alter ego, does in The Sun Also Rises. As a rule, he also orbits round Lady Brett Ashley, but basically he drinks, orders drinks, talks with his ‘gentry’ and leaves out ‘the others’. Although no comments and no analyses come his way, the ‘hard-boiled’ language, the pointilliste understatement and the dialogue with a sense of immediacy get us immersed into his soul and certainly into the intimacy of the ‘lost generation.’

Keywords: Ernest Hemingway; The Sun Also Rises; drinking; hard-boiled style; understatement; lost generation

How to cite: Aprodu, G. (2024). “Drinking in France,” Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity 12(3): 23-32. doi: 10.22381/RJAC12320243.

Received 28 July 2024 • Received in revised form 05 August 2024
Accepted 20 August 2024 • Available online 30 September 2024