The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. The novel was published in the US in 1926 and in 1927 in England with the title of Fiesta. The basis for the novel was Hemingway's 1925 trip to Spain. The setting was unique and memorable, showing the seedy café life in Paris and the excitement of the Pamplona festival, with a middle section devoted to descriptions of a fishing trip in the Pyrenees. Also unique was Hemingway's spare writing style, combined with his restrained use of description to convey characterizations and action, which became known as the iceberg theory. The characters are based on real people (who are pictured) and the action is based on real events.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
706:
In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang interred the final bodies in the Qianling Mausoleum, which remained unopened until the 1960s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianling_Mausoleum
1644:
The combined forces of the Scottish Covenanters and the English Parliamentarians defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor, one of the decisive encounters of the English Civil War, near York. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marston_Moor
1881:
U.S. President James A. Garfield was fatally shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield
1950:
A mentally ill Buddhist monk set fire to the Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji , destroying what is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkaku-ji
2000:
In the Mexican general election, Vicente Fox was elected to be the first President of Mexico from an opposition party in 71 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Fox
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Monégasque (adj): Pertaining to Monaco or the people of Monaco http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mon%C3%A9gasque
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners — I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know." --Wisława Szymborska http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82awa_Szymborska
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