A Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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Author: Ernest HemingwayEdition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 1995-06-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: Hemingway students should start with this book
Summary: 4 Stars
The reviews and literary criticism of A Farewell To Arms could, in themselves, make up a longer book than Hemingway's masterpiece. I have not read that body of criticism. This review is straight from my heart, based on my first reading of this novel.
This novel is a look at war. As the novel and the war progress together, the varnish of honor, duty, adventure, and patriotism drift away from the lives of the Lieutenant Henry and the supporting characters. What's left is fear and disillusionment. The pampered royal families and officers away from the front want the fight to go on but the grunts at the front are done. For me, this aspect was a warning about the lies from vain and bored leaders that start most wars and the deadly futility facing those that actually fight them.
As Henry goes through this metamorphosis in his outlook on war, there is another, simultaneous, metamorphosis. Henry moves from gleefully chasing hookers to falling deeply in love with the English nurse Catherine Barkely. I can't quite grasp Hemingway's intent on the love story. Barkely ultimately dies young. It could be that the love story also begins with enthusiasm and then strips down to bare death, like the war. It could be that focusing on love in one's life makes it hard to then be gung ho about a war. I'm just not sure but I do enjoy turning it over in my head.
There is one other aspect to share about my reading of A Farewell To Arms. I read Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises before I read A Farewell To Arms. I now see A Farewell To Arms as a necessary set up to understand the empty existence led by the characters in The Sun Also Rises. Those characters are spending the rest of their lives recovering from their war experience. Reading A Farewell To Arms gives you a look into that war experience and sets the stage for a deeper understanding of The Sun Also Rises.
I appreciate the clarity and simplicity of his style. He delivers from his gut to yours without trying to show off. I love that. You must read this book.
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