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The best American novel to emerge out of World War I, A
Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American
ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for a 1
beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the
love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley,
caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an
intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his descrip-
tion of the German attack on Caporetto—of lines of tired
men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoral-
ized—bears comparison to Stendhal's depiction of the
retreat from Waterloo. A story of love and pain, of loyalty
and desertion, of serene beauty amidst a world of chaos, A
Farewell to Arms represents a new romanticism for Hem-
ingway. Richer in language, more subtle in expression, and
emotionally astute, it also symbolizes Hemingway's fare-
well, as Malcolm Cowley remarked, to an attitude, a time,
and a literary method....
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Fülszöveg
Fiction >>$4.T5
F D M F HT
IIEniN OWAY
The best American novel to emerge out of World War I, A
Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American
ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for a 1
beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the
love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley,
caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an
intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his descrip-
tion of the German attack on Caporetto—of lines of tired
men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoral-
ized—bears comparison to Stendhal's depiction of the
retreat from Waterloo. A story of love and pain, of loyalty
and desertion, of serene beauty amidst a world of chaos, A
Farewell to Arms represents a new romanticism for Hem-
ingway. Richer in language, more subtle in expression, and
emotionally astute, it also symbolizes Hemingway's fare-
well, as Malcolm Cowley remarked, to an attitude, a time,
and a literary method. Published when Hemingway was just
thirty, it confirmed his stature as the greatest single influence
on the American short story and novel.
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