Why is Farewell to the arms a masterpiece

[A. Bandini]

6 reasons

[kelby_lake]

Do you mean A Farewell To Arms?...

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Never heard of A Farewell to the Arms.

[A. Bandini]

Sorry, my bad! I meant "a farwell to arms" by Hemingway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms

[mono]

I passed by this thread some time ago, and I suppose I do not fully understand the question. Do you mean to ask why many classify A Farewell to Arms as a masterpiece in literature, or why many call the novel a masterpiece in terms of all of Hemingway's novels?
If you mean to ask the first question, why does anyone consider anything a masterpiece? Hemingway, among several authors of his time, genre, and origin, sticks out as a fairly prominent author, especially as a Nobel Prize winner, and rightfully so, considered one of the best American authors of all time. It seems difficult to compare A Farewell to Arms with other authors' masterpieces, such as Melville's Moby Dick, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, or Maugham's Of Human Bondage, as they involve none of even remotely similar elements, so it does not seem that one can say that the mixture of x and y creates a masterpiece, but the novel takes many literary attributes people enjoy reading about (war, love, nurturing, tragedy) mixed with Hemingway's blunt force of words, which some readers can have a love/hate relationship with, for a lack of better words. Why a masterpiece? Why not?
If you intended to ask the latter question, why does A Farewell to Arms seem a prominent novel of Hemingway's literature amid his other novels, such as The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Torrents of Spring, To Have and Have Not, that seems a bit more difficult to say, as most feel that The Old Man and the Sea earned him the most "points," especially in terms of winning the Nobel Prize for literature; personally, amid that one and For Whom the Bell Tolls, I would call A Farewell to Arms my favorite. Why? For the same reason I consider it a masterpiece in all of literature; besides Hemingway's rhetoric, his words that pierce, this novel featured some of his best storytelling abilities with a diversity of characters, the art of their interactions, the encorporation of peripheral conflict (war), and tragedy - beautiful!

[karimera]

hello,
i am a student of literature and going to write my magister desertation
i am thinking to work on premitivism and violence in hemingway's fiction
can anybody help me to find something in in these two notions