5/26/2023 0 Comments A farewell to arms 1929 edition![]() ![]() "Hemingway's words strike you, each one, as if they were pebbles fetched fresh from a brook. Heavily influenced by the modernist approach to fiction developed by Gertrude Stein (especially in THREE LIVES), Hemingway's prose largely directed the critical judgments of style in the second half of the 20th century. ![]() "Some people used to say, why is the man so preoccupied and obsessed with war, and now, since 1933 perhaps it is clear why a writer should be interested in the constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime of war." – Hemingway, 1948 introduction to FAREWELL TO ARMSīased in part on Hemingway's own experiences as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, this novel is a disillusioned indictment of war. ![]()
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