Title
Reading and Not Reading The Black Pig in A Farewell to Arms
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Explicates the obscure allusion to Umberto Notari’s The Black Pig (1907) mentioned in chapter two. Mandel sums up chapter by chapter the book’s anticlerical content. Concludes by speculating on what Rinaldi’s response to the book reveals about his faith.
Date
2017
Pages
96-107
COinS
Citation
Cirino, Mark and Mark P. Ott, eds. Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017.