ADIOS A LAS ARMAS

by Ernest Hemingway

Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.

Reviews

[victoria · Rating 3 out of 5]

＂ a veces, cuando llueve, me veo muerta ＂

[Piperrixa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Me topé con el por casualidad mientras hacia estancia en un pueblo de la comunidad de la Rioja. Tanto la portada como el título de la obra me atraparon, también su aporte como éxito de premio nobel de literatura.

Sin embargo, me deja un sabor agridulce a pesar de la prosa directa y sencilla que usa Hemingway para plasmar La Primera Guerra Mundial, a través de la crudeza y los horrores. La cuál fue un punto decisivo para muchos norteamericanos que la experimentaron como una cruzada moral fracasada, una revelación del declive de Europa o un brutal golpe asestado por los intereses del gran capital.

Hay que contextualizar el periodo en el que se pública [1929] para entender el valor de lo narrado. Aún así, como he mencionado hay algo que no me ha cuajado y eso no resta al trabajo que exite en estas páginas.

[Ceci Damiani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adiós a las armas es una novela hermosamente escrita. Con la visión actual, la historia puede parecer un tanto cliché, donde hay tanto escrito sobre la guerra, pero teniendo en cuenta el momento en que fue escrito creo que es muy original.
Un soldado que debe decidir si seguir con una guerra inútil, arriesgando su vida y viendo morir a sus compañeros o tener una vida tranquila con la mujer que ama, una enfermera viuda que conoce a los comienzos de la guerra.
Una historia dura, pero creo que una de las más lindas que leí de Hemingway

[M. Santana · Rating 5 out of 5]

📖 Adiós a las armas – Ernest Hemingway (1929, EE.UU.) Un relato de amor y guerra con la sobriedad característica de Hemingway. Ambientada en la Primera Guerra Mundial, la novela sigue la relación entre un soldado y una enfermera, marcada por la incertidumbre y el dolor. La prosa directa y sin artificios del autor logra transmitir una intensidad emocional que perdura más allá de la última página.

[Galo Garzon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this is the kind of book that when you finish it, you're not sure if you finished the book or the book finished with you.

If I have to choose between the many reflections or moments that it provides, I will choose two:
- First, his reflection about the world in chapter 34.
- Second, the conversation with the count Greffi in chapter 35.

[Alejandro Forero · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesante libro. Permite visualizar las inmediaciones de la primera guerra mundial y al mismo tiempo desarrolla una historia de amor particular.

[María · Rating 3 out of 5]

La historia, aunque interesante y entretenida, me pareció muy normalita. También la traducción elegida fue regular

[Nacho GC · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lo había leido hace mucho tiempo. y ¡que desilusión!. Me ha parecido un verdadero bodrio