Hemingway's first book is one of the few of his that I have not read, for some reason. I picked it up at the library to amend that situation and finished it on 2/23/2013. As usual with Hemingway, it seems to be close to a biographical account of a period or episode in his life. He explores themes of fidelity and lust, primal urges and bloodlust, bravery, antisemitism, class differences, and more. This is the book with the scenes from the Feast of San Fermin in Pamplona, more popularly known as the time when the running of the bulls and the bullfights happen.Sadly, it seems that despite a variety of meaningful interactions, affairs, betrayals, fights, etc., at the end, the characters have changed very little. Vanitas vanitatum.
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