La recreación artística de Pamplona en Fiesta. The Sun Also Rises

Abstract

In his novel Fiesta. The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway makes an artistic recreation of the city of Pamplona and its fiesta of San Fermín, basing the narrative upon his own experiences of 1924 and 1925. The writer elaborates a fictional internal field of reference from a real external field of reference. This article analyses the series of elements of Pamplona and its fiesta that the author includes in his work, how the selection of elements is carried out, how Hemingway uses these elements in order to convey certain ideas and feelings to the reader, the symbolic value he ascribes to them and to what extent the internal field of reference goes, sometimes, beyond its actual model, due to the...