The novel, a roman à clef describing an anguished love affair between the expatriate American war veteran Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley, a femme fatale representative in the writer's mind of 1920s womanhood, is mostly located in Spain, Hemingway's favourite country.
But everyone knew something about the writer's life — bullfighting, big-game hunting, expatriate in Paris, war correspondent, many wives, drinking, suicide — and so everyone, from this knowledge, had an opinion about the work.
In the book, his characters epitomized the post-war expatriate generation for future generations.
The Sun Also Rises epitomized the post-war expatriate generation, received good reviews, and is "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work".
The era of American literature which was shaped by the experience of the first world war and expatriate Paris in the 1920s ended in John Updike's apartment in New York in the second term of President Dwight D Eisenhower.
During World War I, expatriates exported the melody to Jewish Palestine, where, in 1915, it was transcribed by Abraham Z. Idelsohn, a musicologist.
Saudi law enforcement officials have attributed similar attacks over the past few years to expatriates engaged in a turf war in the lucrative black market trade in liquor.
One day it might be a local tenants' organisation complaining about unfair rent rises, the next, a group of draft-dodging American expatriates campaigning against the Vietnam war, or the "Indian Marxist-Leninist Association", or for the workers taking industrial action at the Ford plant in Dagenham.
Here's the summary from imbd.com: "Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications".
The play had its origin in Stoppard's discovery that James Joyce, Lenin, and Tristan Tzara, the founder of Dadaism, had all lived in Zurich during the First World War — a conjunction of expatriates that made instant comic connections in his mind.
