Title
"I Was in Italy...and I Spoke Italian": The Cosmopolitan Battlefield of A Farewell to Arms
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Analyzes Hemingway’s treatment of the complexities of nationalistic identity underlying World War I. Schwetman looks at the divisions in class, ethnicity, and region that make up the novel’s structure and undermine the very logic of the war. Discusses Frederic as a nonaligned Red Cross volunteer whose outsider status transcends national interests. Compares Hemingway’s novel to Henry Dunant’s A Memory of Solferino (1864), noting their shared thematic focus on war’s aftermath and cosmopolitan sensibility.
Date
2017
Pages
127-142
COinS
Citation
Cirino, Mark and Mark P. Ott, eds. Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017.