GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -A Farewell to Arms, third novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1929. Its depiction of the existential disillusionment of the “Lost Generation” echoes his early short stories and his first major novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926). A Farewell to Arms is particularly notable for its autobiographical elements.

Detailed explanation-2: -The novel was based on Hemingway’s own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The inspiration for Catherine Barkley was Agnes von Kurowsky, a nurse who cared for Hemingway in a hospital in Milan after he had been wounded.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ernest Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), which were full of the existential disillusionment of the Lost Generation expatriates; For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), about the Spanish Civil War; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Old Man and the Sea (1952).

Detailed explanation-4: -A Farewell To Arms is a semi-autobiographic novel because Hemingway did in fact participate in the world war I effort which add even more realism to his work, and as he went thought his own events this affected the way he wrote this novel and his experiences later served as the source material for his novel.