Expatriate Lifestyle as Tourist Destination: The Sun Also Rises and Experiential Travelogues of the Twenties

In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway depicts the fictional movements of his characters as experiential travelogue, making the expatriate artist lifestyle a tourist experience. While not explicitly a guidebook, the novel belongs to the tradition of period travelogues such as Pages from the Book of Paris, Paris with the Lid Lifted, How to be Happy in Paris (without being ruined), and Paris on Parade. Such books served as guides to a lifestyle, rather than to monuments or museums. Jake Barnes's emphasis on his environment and recurrent references to the streets, bars, and cafés frequented by his expatriate companions place The Sun Also Rises within a body of travel literature describing the infamous expatriate lifestyle.