Ernest Hemingway, as the main character of his novel, served on the Italian front, was wounded, lay in the Milan hospital and had an affair with a nurse. The novel «A Farewell to Arms» is mostly autobiographical. Unsightly military weekdays and sincere human feelings provide an access to the classical artistic problems - the realization by human his own place in the world and the identification of important existential constants of «war» and «peace», «life» and «death», «faith» and «disbelief». On the background of the war occurs the love story between lieutenant of the field ambulance, Frederick Henry, and nurse, Catherine Barkley, and it is the second major theme of the novel. The main theme of the work and the mover of the plot was the First World War. The novel «A Farewell to Arms» written by Ernest Hemingway released in 1929 and touched on several major problems that agitated European society in the early XX century.
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