Graziella Parati, Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Language and Literature, and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
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In one year we will be remembering at Dartmouth the beginning of WWI with a conference organized by the department of French and Italian. It is time, therefore, to re-read the novels that conflict has engendered. Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, published in 1929, is one of those books. Against the backdrop of the war, the novel narrates the love story between the American Frederic Henry, who is serving as a lieutenant (“tenente”) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army, and the English (at times she is defined as Scottish) Catherine Barkley.