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In this comprehensive guide, Lewis and Roos reveal how A Farewell
to Arms represents a complex alchemy of Hemingway’s personal
experience as a Red Cross ambulance driver in 1918, his extensive
historical research of a time period and terrain with which he was
personally unfamiliar, and the impact of his vast reading in the
great works of 19th-century fiction. Ultimately, Lewis and Roos
assert, Hemingway’s great novel is not simply a story of love and
war, as most have concluded, but an intricate novel of ideas
exploring the clash of reason and faith and deep questions of
epistemology. The commentary also delves deeply into the roots of
controversy surrounding the novel’s treatment of gender issues
through the characters of Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley.
Catherine, they argue, is far more than an object of love; she is a
real feminist heroine who is responsible for Frederic’s
maturation in developing a capacity for true love. Written in clear
and accessible prose that will appeal to scholars and Hemingway
neophytes alike, Reading Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the
most sweeping guide yet available to Hemingway’s finest novel,
and contributes to a richer understanding of the writer’s entire
body of work.
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