The President of China, Xi Jinping, told 650 business executives and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea "left a deep impression" on him. "When I visited Cuba … I visited the pub Hemingway often went to and ordered his favorite drink - rum mixed with mint and ice."
While this has little to do with The Sun Also Rises, I just saw this headline referring to Hemingway and I figured I'd share it.
I also recently saw a New York Times article about a new exhibition on Hemingway. In the article there was a picture that caught my interest as perhaps a real life counterpart to the events of The Sun Also Rises.
This picture shows Hemingway (left) at a table in Pamplona during the 1925 Fiesta of San Fermin. This picture makes me wonder if the others sitting at the table with him inspired characters in the novel. Visit the exhibition online at: http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/ernest-hemingway
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