Part which will sit least comfortably with the reader is Henry's desertion. The story of this attachment is poetic, idyllic, tragic. The love of Lieutenant Henry for the nurse Catherineīarkley, a love so great that Henry eventually deserts, as he puts it, "declares separate peace," could only have come in the war and out of the war.
Not yet much used, the collapse of the Italian front in 1917, and that, in consequence, so far as his novel is to be regarded solely as a war book, it has the freshness of depiction in a new field.ĭramatic as are the pages dealing with the Caporetto debacle, the war, however, is but a background for the real story, and this in spite of the fact that this story is itself an outgrowth of the war. Hemingway has concerned himself with a phase of the war It is too early for this, and even if it could be of interest, it lies beyond the scope of contemporary review. They will dissect the several specimens, and point out differences and Later literary historians will doubtless concern themselves with these novels as a group will view them as a group phenomenon. Consequently, "A Farewell to Arms," if it is to be given classification, belongs to the rapidly crowding
He is not concerned with the aftermath of the war, but with certain years and phases of the war itself. S in "The Sun Also Rises," Ernest Hemingway lays the scene of his new novel in Europe.
0 kommentar(er)
