This is a description both of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926) and of James Baldwins Giovanni's Room (1956), and, as I hope to show, pairing the texts helps illuminate the latter text's ambivalent but revealing relationship with the former. The narrator-protagonist is an American man suffering from sexual issues after excessive drinking in cafes and some painful romantic encounters, he attempts to accept his life as it is. In the wake of a world war, an American-born author moved to Paris to join a flourishing literary community and five years later published a novel about a community of expatriates living in Paris and traveling in Spain.
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