The Influence of Ernest Hemingway - Erik Nakjavani (essay date spring-summer 2001)
Erik Nakjavani (essay date spring-summer 2001)
SOURCE: Nakjavani, Erik. “Hemingway on War and Peace.” North Dakota Quarterly 68, nos. 2-3 (spring-summer 2001): 245-73.
[In the following essay, Nakjavani draws upon philosophy, military history, psychoanalysis, and literary theory to consider Hemingway's treatment of the metaphysics and psychology of war in A Farewell to Arms and other works.]
You had read on and studied the art of war ever since you were a boy and your grandfather had started you on the American Civil War.
—Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (335)
PROLOGUE
We know that Ernest Hemingway considered the Prussian warrior-philosopher General Karl von Clausewitz the “old Einstein of battles” (By-Line 291). From Hemingway's perspective Clausewitz, the author of On War (1832), a treatise on the theoretics and pragmatics of war, was “the...
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