- Title
- A Fetid Feast: Hunger and Violence in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
- Author/Creator
- Lawrence Gann
- Publication Details
- The Hemingway Review, Vol.43(2), pp.97-100
- Annotation
- Hemingway's casting of the Great War's battlefields as a "stockyard" is monumental within A Farewell to Arms. The comparison captures the brutality and waste of the industrialized murder from which Frederic must escape. Resounding beyond the distress of the mechanical efficiency of the war, this image complicates depictions of commensality and consumption. While Frederic eats cheese, the war eats people. Frequently, Hemingway draws us to meals achieved and attempted to meditate on a difficult truth; sustenance and violence mingle by their nature.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015213187903691
Journal article
A Fetid Feast: Hunger and Violence in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
The Hemingway Review, Vol.43(2), pp.97-100
2024
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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