Chapter 17 — The Fight

Something in Robert Cohn finally snaps. Outside the café he drops Jake and Mike with his fists, then climbs to Romero's room to beat the boy senseless — but the young matador will not stay down, rising again and again until Cohn breaks and weeps. By morning Cohn has left Pamplona. In the streets a man is caught and killed in the run of the bulls, and that afternoon Romero kills the very same bull — and its ear is carried away by Brett.

Chapter 17 of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, read in full. New chapters released regularly — follow so you never miss the next.

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📝 Source: from Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (public domain)

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