Prima guerra mondiale
Inglese:hemngway
Ernest hemingway was born in Illinois . He worked as a reporter for the “Kansas City Star”. When America
decided to enter the Great War, he tried to join the army, but he was rejected because of defective eye.
Finally he voluntereed as an ambulance driver on the Italian front and received a silver medal from the
Italian government. at Paris he entered in a group of expatriate writers called “the lost generation”.
he wrote A Farewell to Arms, a love story that talks about the horrors of the war and at the same time the
best American novel ever written on World War I. During the Spanish Civil War he was a correspondent for
an American news agency and this experience was recorded in For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1953 her novel
Old Man and The Sea won Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
the Hemingway style's he considered writing a means to know own identity, so he created essential style,
characterised by a sinple syntax, colloquial dialogue and small descriptions. His characters are revealed
through the dialogue and descriptive passages that evoke a mood
A FAREWELL TO ARMS.
THE PLOT - This novel deals with the story of an American ambulance driver, Lieutenant Henry Frederick, on
the Italian front during World War I. There he falls in love with a English nurse, Catherine. He meets her
again at a Milan hospital where he is sent after being wounded. When he returns finds himself in the
retreat of the Italian army after the German attack on Caporetto. Henry decides to desert the army to
escape with Catherine to Switzerland where she finally dies giving birth to the baby, who also dies.
