Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell To Arms

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Rated 4 stars

“Hemingway stretches his art in all sorts of directions here, not always successfully, but when it works, it really works. The influence of Gertrude Stein is everywhere apparent – read “Three Lives” and then open “A Farewell to Arms.” The same rhythmic repetition, the same odd syntax, the same farewell to punctuation…the descriptive passages in this novel approach the avant garde. The wonderful scenes with Henry’s comrades-in-arms provide welcome relief, however, as does the romance, which...”

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Rated 2 stars

“I guess it's official: I don't like Hemmingway. I mean I don't have anything personal against the guy and I kind of liked The Old Man and the Sea. But a lot like his other supposed classic For Whom the Bell Tolls I just didn't get what's so great about A Farewell to Arms.

The story kind of reminds me of For Whom the Bell Tolls, in that it features the typical, stoic, Hemmingway male hero in the role of a soldier fighting in a foreign war (here Italy in WWI instead of Spain's Civil...”