Idealism, Deadlock and Decimation: The Italian Experience of World War I in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Emilio Lussu’s Sardinian Brigade
Citation
QUİNN, Patrick J. & Steven TROUT. "Idealism, Deadlock and Decimation: The Italian Experience of World War I in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Emilio Lussu’s Sardinian Brigade". New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings, 770 (2013): 113-130.Abstract
In Hemingway’s fiction, the Italian theater of World War I is a theater of the absurd,
alongside which even the notorious Western Front has a measure of dignity and purpose.
France may have “ghastly show[s]” like the Somme or Verdun, but it is there that the real
war is being fought and where its final outcome will be decided (Hemingway, A Farewell to
Arms 18).
