Jake Barnes Montparnasse, Paris
Book 1
Before Spain there is Paris: the cafés, the drinking, and the aimless circling of Jake, Brett and their friends. Montparnasse establishes the wound at the centre of the book, Jake's longing for Brett and the restlessness that sends them all south.
Book 1
explicit The novel opens in the Montparnasse café world Hemingway names directly; sited on the real quarter around the Boulevard du Montparnasse, deliberately outside the Pamplona bbox as the book's starting frame.
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