![]() The realism made a powerful statement against war. The novels were more “never again” than antiwar. The audiobook version narrated by John Slattery who skillfully changes voice tones with each character provides a vivid listening experience, a time travel journey back to the era.Ī Farewell to Arms was one of the novels appearing in the years after the First World War that might be described as war realism novels. The result was a distracted and disillusioned bunch of survivors stumbling through the peace years of the 1920s. This war-impaired cohort, the lost generation, had survived the global conflict while being traumatized by the unprecedented carnage of the war. ![]() ![]() In the Modernist classic A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway captures the disillusionment with the First World War experienced by a new class of rootless cosmopolitans that arose in the years after the war. Book Review of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway ![]()
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