Hemingway's roman à clef The Sun Also Rises is through and through a romantic novel—full of passions and yearnings. At the time, 26-year-old Papa struggled with temptations, desires, and deceit. He channeled the complexity of it all through his alter ego Jake Barnes onto the pages of his first novel... And he brilliantly managed to do it without breaking away from his "iceberg" philosophy.
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