![]() ![]() He describes the Italian army as panic stricken and thrown into chaos once the enemy forced them to retreat during the battle at Caporetto, not far from Venice. Hemingway looks at war in A Farewell to Arms and sees it as a singular example of wretchedness and evil in the world. As for the remaining details of the story, who knows how many of them relate to the actual events in the author’s life? But the broad strokes are there, giving the narrative a veracity, a relationship to life, a profundity that can come about only through personal experience. Like his protagonist, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, Hemingway was an American soldier who served as an ambulance driver with the Italian military during World War I he too was wounded in battle, landed in a military hospital in Milan, and met the woman with whom he would begin a loving and exclusive relationship during his convalescence. This might have something to do with the close resemblances between the book and the author’s life. ![]() Ernest Hemingway’s 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms is widely considered to be one of his finest works. ![]()
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