Whether it’s a world at war or the battles raging within human minds, the situations in A Farewell to Arms are chaotic. All the reader needs is the surface information (the part of the iceberg we can see) to understand the situations being discussed (or the water below the visible iceberg). It’s the simple idea that the reader is to be trusted. You’ve probably heard about Ernest Hemingway’s “Iceberg Principle” or theory of omission. When the novel was published, it helped cement Hemingway’s reputation as one of America’s greatest young writers. Many of the characters are also based on real people Hemingway met and knew during his time in Italy and France.
Many of Hemingway’s own experiences in the war are reflected in the novel. He did not finish the novel there, but continued writing it as he traveled in America in 19. After the war, he moved to Paris where he began writing A Farewell to Arms. He spent nine months recuperating in Milan, sitting in cafes and bars and falling in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowski. At the age of 18, in June, 1918, he arrived in Europe and was wounded on July 8. Although this was Hemingway’s bleakest novel, its publication cemented his stature as a modern American writer.Įrnest Hemingway served in World War I in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps. The title is taken from a poem by 16th-century English dramatist George Peele.Ī Farewell to Arms focuses on a doomed romance between Henry and a British nurse, Catherine Barkley, against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant (“Tenente”) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.
Is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway concerning events during the Italian campaigns during the World War I.
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