A review by maralisephoto
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

3.0

In the reviews of this book that I have read, the word 'passion' is repeatedly used to describe the feelings of Lieutenant Henry for nurse Catherine. The problem with those descriptions is that Hemingway doesn't 'do' passion. Therefore, that description doesn't match the prose. But Hemingway does foreshadow the (much later) dawn of post-modernism with the built-in fragmentation of the writing and the delayed meaning (and passion) one feels for the story and the characters. These characteristics, for me, show Hemmingway's brilliance, but also cripple this very not-post-modern story.