FROM HEMINGWAY TOHELLER: THE WAR NOVEL
FROM HEMINGWAY TOHELLER: THE WAR NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: Considered a particular type of narrative literary texts, Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms are both remarkable war novels, thus being perceived as important cultural products. Both novels are linked to two distinct cultural and literary paradigms, modernism and postmodernism and both of them are special kinds of war fiction. Being written by authors who had experienced war at a young age, their interpretation as war texts and their characters' attitude is challenging. Although in Hemingway's book war turns out to be the complete opposite of the traditional view of armed conflict as a test for manly virtues, both novels have a number of common characteristics, highlighting them being the purpose of the hereby paper.

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