A Farewell to Arms (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: World War I
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Values, Love or romance, Escapes, 1910’s, Pregnancy, Moral conditions, World War I, Fate or fatalism, Soldiers, Nursing or nurses, Italy or Italians, Switzerland or Swiss people
- Locales: Italy, Switzerland
Places Discussed
*Italy. Country in which Ernest Hemingway’s American protagonist, Frederic Henry, serves as a volunteer ambulance driver during World War I—just as Hemingway himself had served during that war. Moreover, Henry is also like Hemingway in being severely wounded and invalided to recuperate in an American hospital in Milan. There Henry experiences the first serious love of his life, The foreign location makes it easier for Henry to examine the meaning of his young life and allow him to mature as he confronts danger, death, and love. Throughout the novel, Henry...
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