Premium Content The Need for Repetition: Hemingway's Sparse Landscape in A Farewell to Arms
By Nathaniel Popper - February 19, 2002
In his novel A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway uses parataxis extensively. With this structure Hemingway avoids making causal connections in his narration; this is one of the most famous aspects of Hemingway's writing. But the unpredictability that the anti-causal nature of the narrative suggests, is counteracted by another, less apparent…
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