A semi-autobiographical work, the novel captures the harsh realities – and banalities - of war, as well as the pain that lovers endure while caught in the inexorable sweep of warfare.Ī cynical insight to the First World War, A Farewell to Arms follows Frederic Henry (known to most as ‘Tenente’ which is Italian slang for ‘Lieutenant’), a young American volunteering as an ambulance driver for the Italian Army after being rejected by the American military. Out of this experience came A Farewell to Arms. While volunteering for the ambulance service in Italy, he was wounded and became twice decorated. Prior to the release of his debut novel, the literary stylings dominating the publishing industry were those of unnecessarily verbose and ‘flowery’ Victorian authors. Considered to be the high priest of modernism, it could be argued that Hemingway transformed the face of literature.
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