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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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#12 Ernest Hemingway - ‘A Farewell to Arms’ (1929)
An ambulance driver in Italy during WWI meets an English nurse and begins some kind of a life with her. A book on what gets in the way of love and why, maybe. A strict three-part structure, the first of which I found a little dry. The second was more touching, more emotionally invested in spite of that famously brief prose. The third was one of the most beautiful European adventures I’ve ever been on, real or imaginary. The final slither made a dent in my chest. It is wicked and sad and numbing. The ‘flaws’ of this book are not hidden: Catherine is ridiculously doting; Frederic is frustratingly laconic. There are probably some others, too. At the final page, however, it all felt worth it to me. All that mud and brevity. It all worked out.
#12 Ernest Hemingway - ‘A Farewell to Arms’ (1929)
An ambulance driver in Italy during WWI meets an English nurse and begins some kind of a life with her. A book on what gets in the way of love and why, maybe. A strict three-part structure, the first of which I found a little dry. The second was more touching, more emotionally invested in spite of that famously brief prose. The third was one of the most beautiful European adventures I’ve ever been on, real or imaginary. The final slither made a dent in my chest. It is wicked and sad and numbing. The ‘flaws’ of this book are not hidden: Catherine is ridiculously doting; Frederic is frustratingly laconic. There are probably some others, too. At the final page, however, it all felt worth it to me. All that mud and brevity. It all worked out.