Troops through the landscape is often quoted as a lesson in effective The opening two-page chapter about the coming and going of Telling detail that brings out the underlying emotions indirectly-HemingwayĪt his best. War isĭescribed in Farewell with a surface detachment and attention to That made his reputation as the leading writer of his time. Now, calling A Farewell to Arms a romance is not to runĭown Ernest Hemingway, one of my favourite authors, nor to denigrate the novel Himself had served in the ambulance corps, like the protagonist (although Hemingway never deserted and in fact was awarded for The narrator protagonist deserts is the Italian forces, which Hemingway I can think of very few other American novels that are evenĬontenders, though I can also think of several greater novels fromĮuropean writers (first and foremost, All Quiet on the Western Front)-perhaps because United States was less involved in, andĪ Farewell to Arms is actually more of a love story than a war CRITIQUE | THE TEXT | THE MOVIES Hemingway makes love, not warĪ Farewell to Arms has been called the best American novel to come out of World War I.
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