American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1415 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*A Farewell to Arms*
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The idea
An American ambulance driver on the Italian front deserts during a retreat and escapes to Switzerland with the nurse he loves, who dies in childbirth. The novel distrusts abstract words like glory and honour, preferring the names of villages and the numbers of roads.
In practice
A desertion, an escape, and a death.
Where people slip
The suspicion of abstract words is the book's ethic.
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