This novel Hemingway, probably partly autobiographical, describes the life of some American living in France, after the First World War. There are no heroes to speak of, but rather a study of a group of people in an identity crisis, more or less disoriented after the first war, and seeking an end to the outputs , parties, drinking alcohol in astronomical amounts. The first part of the book is located in Paris, the second in Spain, during a fiesta with several bullfights. As always, Hemingway have great distrust of interpretations, including psychological. He prefers to portray to the outside -with minutie- talent and a series of facts and events rather banal, like a reporter describing a game or demo. A bit like a pointillist artist whose color keys are able to create a more or less clear picture. The descriptions without comment, sober relationship written by Hemingway facts end up giving an idea of the characters, but without great depth, and if interpretation there, it will be that of the reader. The sequences and dialogues are usually brief, as the book is read it easily, this is the great skill of the author who, despite a seemingly little elaborate style, "keeps" his reader up the end of the book. The book also helps to get an idea of the famous "lost generation" and the American modernist movement, enemy of dogmas and sterile intellectualism, and advocating a neutral and descriptive literary style rather than aesthetic, including Hemingway, and much more Steinbeck, is a good example.
