Adeus às armas

De Ernest Hemingway

Publicado em 1929, Adeus às Armas é o segundo romance do escritor norte-americano Ernest Hemingway. O livro tem como tema central a paixão de Frederic Henry – que se alista no exército italiano como motorista de ambulância – pela enfermeira Catherine Barkley.
Narrado em primeira pessoa, Adeus às Armas revela-se uma obra como poucas, aclamada pela crítica como o melhor livro de ficção produzido sobre a Primeira Guerra Mundial. Hemingway conduz a narrativa de forma dinâmica, ressaltando o teor dramático da trama e proporcionando ao leitor algumas das páginas mais românticas e comoventes da literatura ocidental.
Ernest Hemingway nasceu em Oak Park, Illinois, em 1899, e começou sua carreira literária no The Kansas City Star, em 1917. A obra mais conhecida de Hemingway, O Velho e o Mar, foi agraciada com o Prêmio Pulitzer. Em 1954 ele recebeu o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura pelo conjunto da obra.

• Idioma: Português
• Editora: Bertrand
• Data de lançamento: 14 de mar. de 2013
• ISBN: 9788528617139

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961. 

Avaliações de Adeus às armas

[chrisblocker · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

I've read many of Ernest Hemingway's most revered short stories, and I've read one of his more acclaimed novels, The Sun Also Rises. I like Hemingway for the most part. He wrote good stories, but the style was very bare. I think Hemingway tried to strip down his stories as much as possible and, though he was good at it, this has always annoyed me a little. When I'm sipping coffee and nibbling on doughnuts with fellow literati, we make jokes about various authors. I often crack jokes on poor Hemingway and his pronoun-leading sentences.Well, the joke is on me.A Farewell to Arms is a tremendous novel. It employs Hemingway's signature simplicity, but it is not as simple as I remember Hemingway's other works being. He used elegant language and description more freely, but never more than you'd expect from Hemingway. This blend makes for a wonderful novel, a novel that lets the story and the characters speak for themselves. It is well-casted, well-plotted, and paced perfectly. It is thrilling and heartbreaking. This, for me, was a surprisingly good novel.Now, I wasn't a big fan of Catherine Barkley and without reading other reviews, I would guess, aside from the ending for some, this is the most griped about element of this book. Hemingway was “a man's writer” and his life story portrays him as machismo, but Hemingway could still write a descent female character, certainly better than some others. Catherine was not one of these. She's weak and annoying and ignorant; yet she's strong, entertaining, and very intelligent. Perhaps Catherine was a bit crazy, a bit damaged. Now if Hemingway wrote all his female characters this way, I would assume he was just an idiot. Since he doesn't, I have to give him the benefit of the doubt. There may be people like Catherine in the world, but with Hemingway's bare style—refusing to explain Catherine—I struggled to understand her and had difficulty getting past her juvenile dialogue. What was it that Frederic saw in her?Catherine aside, which admittedly is a large part of the book, I thought A Farewell to Arms was spectacular. It's real and it's memorable. Is Hemingway over-hyped by academia? Absolutely, at least in my experience; but that's not to say that he wasn't a really great writer and master of the pared down narrative. So I'll be more careful about the Hemingway jokes. Orwell is easier to poke fun at anyway.

[misscatie · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

The end of this book was so completely depressing that I couldn't even get off the couch to kill myself. Good book, but like I said, completely depressing. Only read if you're on uppers.

[pilgrimjess · Nota: 3 de 5 estrelas]

I actually feel a little embarrassed that I have only given this book, a supposed great anti-war masterpiece by a great and illustrious author only 3 stars. Luckily or unluckily, depending with your viewpoint, I did not read this at school so hopefully am a little more mature and knowledgeable about the events within but that said it was interesting to read a little about the much less publicized Italian front during WWI. The retreat across the Po peninsula was particularily enlightening especially how the officers were singled out and executed by their own side.A few months back I read Sebastian Foulks 'Birdsong' and thoroughly enjoyed it so thought I would, if you like read the original, but this one really just failed to grip me. Firstly Henry was an American fighting with the Italians and as such not as attached to the men around him as he might have been if he was fighting with his own countrymen. Secondly Henry served with the Ambulance brigade and as such, no disrespect intended, not actually on the front line in the trenches and thus seeing the actual events, only the results, first hand. Both of these facts no doubt coloured my opinion. Yes, Henry was injured badly and spent a long time recuperating in hospital and with all Hemmingway books it is not neccessarily what he writes but rather what he implies that counts, so you see Henry's disallusionment towards the war growing and the futility of it all but in the end he justs walks away. A little too easily as well IMHO.The book was also billed as a great and tragic love story but this I found rather monotonous a lot of the time. Mainly because I could not make myself like Catherine, in fact I found her rather barmy to put it mildly. Her constant craving to be told that she was loved frankly left me cold.On the whole I felt that it was an interesting read but that there were better anti-war books,'Birdsong' and 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to name two.

[rybeewoods · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

Boring. I've heard that Hemingway is the balls, but I just found that I wanted to cut mine off while reading this book. I finished it though and for that I can be proud.

[aethercowboy · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

One of Hemingway's most noted stories is the foundation for an exciting internet meme known as "six word stories." A complete collection of books was published, called "Six Word Memoirs," in the vein of this challenge met by Hemingway. Likewise are Six Word Sci-Fi stories to be found on the internet.This story went as such: "For sale: Baby shoes, never worn."For those of you familiar with Hemingway's life, you may see this as being quite autobiographical. Likewise, you may also find A Farewell to Arms to be equally autobiographical.Set during World War I (called The Great War), American Frederic Henry is caught up in the war on the Italian Front. He drives an ambulance, delivering wounded solders to the proper medical facilities. In his duty, he meets an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. The two fall in love.The story chronicles their relationship, and how the raging war outside tries to tear them apart (though without the war, they would have never met). As things start to fall apart, the lovers in the war-torn world try to find a safe place. A neutral place.Not all is happy, but at the same time, not all is sad. The novel, leaving a bittersweet taste in the mouth of the reader, is well worth the time and devotion spend traveling through its passages alongside Frederic and Catherine.Recommended for any fan of Hemingway, but too for readers interested in fiction focusing on World War I.

[doondeck · Nota: 2 de 5 estrelas]

I found the dialogue between Henry and Catherine to be silly and inane. Despite depicting the horror of war, this book did nothing to make you root for the couple.

[bookomaniac-1 · Nota: 3 de 5 estrelas]

Hemingways gaafste roman. Opvallend contrast tussen harde oorlogscenes en sweet talk tussen de geliefden. Hun relatie is onromantisch, maar toch zoet;

[mfeldman51 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

If you read this a long time ago, read it again. It's even better than you remember.

[lizatoad · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

This is one of my favorite books. when i was getting to the end, and understood what was going to happen to Catherine, I was so upset that I couldn't force myself to finish reading it for about a week!

[catherinestead · Nota: 2 de 5 estrelas]

Depressing. Bleak, unemotional and unengaging. I found Hemingway's prose style annoying and his dialogue worse, and I didn't like his characters. On the other hand, I thought that the plot was well-constructed - I'd have been very surprised if it hadn't been - and that the the book did a good job of conveying the bleakness and uncertainty of war. I made it to the end, but it was a struggle at times.I'm aware, though, that I'm in a minority and many people love the very things that made me dislike the book. If you like terse prose and depressing war stories, you'll love this book.

[wassilissa · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

Letztes Jahr waren wir in Italien, genau in der Gegend, in der Hemingway im ersten Weltkrieg war, und sahen dort auch Schautafeln zu "Hemingway's War". Seitdem wollte ich das Buch lesen, in dem Hemingway seine Erlebnisse verarbeitet. Er selbst war noch blutjung, 19 Jahre alt bei Kriegsende, und hatte rein optisch noch nichts gemeinsam mit dem kräftigem Mann, den man von Fotos kennt. Hier ist er als junger Soldat mit dem Vorbild für die weibliche Hauptperson zu sehen. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10561536/Ernest-Hemingway-and-the-Dear-John-letter-from-his-First-World-War-love.html Im Buch beschreibt er recht exakt, was er auch selbst erlebte, Kämpfe, eine schwere Verletzung, die Liebe zu einer Krankenschwester. Im Buch desertiert er allerdings, geht mit der Schwester eine Beziehung ein, sie wird schwanger. Für mich ist das Hauptthema die Sinnlosigkeit von Leben und Sterben, v.a. im Krieg, doch eigentlich unabhängig davon. Denn sinnloser Tod holt den Protagonisten auch in ganz friedlichen Situationen ein, schlussendlich stellt sich daher die Frage, wozu wir eigentlich leben - vom Tod sind wir immer umgeben. Passini äußert sich vehement gegen den Krieg, plädiert dafür den Kampf einzustellen und wird noch in der gleichen Minute getötet. Am Ende des Buches reflektiert Henry über einen Ast mit Ameisen, den er einmal ins Feuer geworfen hatte - die Gelegenheit, den Messias zu spielen und die Ameisen zu retten, ließ er ungenutzt - wie der Messias selbst. "Das tat man eben. Man starb. Man wusste nicht, worum es sich handelte. Man hatte nicht Zeit, es zu erfahren. Man warf einen herein und sagte einem die Regeln, und beim ersten Male, wenn man von der Grundlinie fort war, töteten sie einen. Oder sie töteten einen auch für nichts und wieder nichts.“ Diese Stellen und diese Auseinandersetzung mit Tod und Sterben sind wirklich stark. Leider konnte ich mit der vielgepriesenen Liebesgeschichte wenig anfangen. Einerseits finde ich die weibliche Hauptfigur wirklich sehr holzschnittartig gezeichnet. Andererseits lag es sicher auch an der Sprache/Übersetzung. Die Dialoge kamen mir künstlich und gestelzt vor. Die altmodischen Ausdrücke wie "ulkig" und "famos" fand ich auch eher unpassend. Bisher hatte ich Hemingway größtenteils auf Englisch gelesen. Das ist vermutlich empfehlenswert, da er ja auch relativ leicht zu lesen ist.

[co_coyote · Nota: 2 de 5 estrelas]

'm not sure how you get to be my age, reading as many books as I do each year (and an English major to boot!), and have managed not to read a book by Ernest Hemingway. But this is my first. I guess I meant to do it earlier, because I apparently bought this book in the 1970s. It cost $1.65 new, and it appears I paid $1.25 for it at a used book store that still exists here in Fort Collins. The best part about this book was finding a $10 bill pressed between the pages. I wish all my reading returned such handsome dividends.I suppose I knew Hemingway is famous for his spare writing style, but I had no idea I was in for nearly 350 pages of one declarative sentence after the other. I thought I was going to go crazy in the first 100 pages, then the style (or perhaps the story) began to grow on me and I settled down and enjoyed the last half of the book. I won't be rushing out for another one, but I hope I come across it before another 50 years goes by.

[tronella_1 · Nota: 3 de 5 estrelas]

I have to say that I wasn't overly fond of this one; while the descriptions of places and military aspects were nice, the whole romance part just didn't sit right with me, largely due to the woman being some kind of android with no desire other than to look pretty and make the man happy. Creeped me out somewhat.

[justabookreader · Nota: 3 de 5 estrelas]

Hemingway imbues his characters with exceptional courage and grace. They, Henry and Catherine (two main characters), are so very lonely and the reader is happy to see them find each other and a bit of themselves in the process of falling in love. Together they seem more capable of dealing with the world around them. They are no longer drifting and in many ways are fighting together and for each other. Told through Henry's point of view, one gets to experience the tension at the front, the adrenaline rush that comes with running from the enemy, and the camaraderie of the men who are fighting for something they do not understand. All they know is that they would like for the war to be over so they can go home; a common refrain in war. Romance, while it may seem like an odd word to use when speaking of war, is pervasive throughout the story; in the descriptions of the men, the sadness and loneliness that pervade the lives of the individuals at the front, and people waiting at home for them to return. While I have not read a great deal of Hemingway, there is something very different about this book that makes it stand out from the rest and that is the romantic nature of the piece. He shows in great detail the love between these two, constrained and confusing as it is for everyone. It is very natural and drawn in its most elemental state, almost raw. He seems to want to readers to be involved with these two characters on a very intimate level and he accomplishes that goal.

[raven9167 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

I read this for the first time in high school, and perhaps once in college, and I still enjoy it very much. Though the ending is quite tragic, the gradual change in Frederick Henry from one who doesn't care about much of anything to a man who cares only for Catherine is quite compelling. Hemingway's style of writing is blunt and to the point, and while he is often criticized for creating misogynistic, alcoholic male leads, in this case I feel he has created something of the opposite. Henry cuts down on his drinking, to an extent, because of Catherine, and he also truly loves her. Granted, their relationship seems to be one of Catherine being subordinate to him, but this isn't always the case ("I never felt like a whore before" she says upon being brought into a hotel room in Milan, which Henry feels bad about) and I do believe that Frederick comes to love Catherine for who she is, and not merely because she tries to please him.

But more than the relationship between Frederick and Catherine, this book has always been about the absolute destructiveness and ultimate pointlessness of war to me. From the first chapter ("only 7000 died" from the cholera) to Imo's death to the absurdity of Henry being shot at by the Italians because they believe him to be a German, Hemingway shows again and again that in the time of war, chaos and loss are dominant and death comes for all. There are also numerous references to how war in the end does very little for the common man; Frederick mentions several times about there being only victory or defeat, and how in the end, neither changes all that much.

[evertrap · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

The most tedious, chit-catty, boring book I have ever read.

[pretear_1 · Nota: 3 de 5 estrelas]

I always feel strange writing reviews for classics because, really, what the hell do I know? My high school was big on literary diversity so I never got to read the 'dead white guys'. I'm embarrassed to say that this is the first time I've read Hemingway. I can definitely see why he is such an important, influential author. His style is truly unique. His ability to write short, sharp, concise, yet powerful sentences is truly impressive. The minimalism seemed more pronounced in the beginning of A Farewell to Arms - it's possible that the style was so foreign to me that it was overwhelming at first, but it became less pronounced as I became more accustomed to it. Surprisingly, there was a lot of humor in the book although some of it may have been unintentional. My general impression is that this book centers suffering as the normal state of life. Love, drink, food, games, are distractions but one will always go back to suffering. As far as gender roles, I know Hemingway catches a lot of flack for being a dirty sexist, but I didn't see anything extremely offensive in this book. The main male character seemed like an exaggeration of 'maleness', that is, stereotypically male.( I feel like Hemingway writes male characters this way, his so-called 'Code Hero', because he himself is not stereotypically manly. This may be a baseless assumption but perhaps his characters were a type of wish fulfillment rather than an expression of himself.) The main female character didn't strike me as stereotypically female. The only feminist criticism that occurs to me is that the main female character seemed very concerned with pleasing the main male character even to her own detriment. But at the same time she seemed aware, more so than the male character, that their love was a fleeting game. She was happy to play house as a distraction (maybe that's the reason that she always put off getting married even though he suggested it early and often?) She did seem really two dimensional, but so did most of the characters, even the main male character.

[jeffkeen · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

The first book I ever felt. Read it in High School. Instantly fell in love with the gritty painful saga.

[kimmr_2 · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

The way I listened to the audiobook version of this novel narrated by John Slattery didn’t do it justice. Being on holidays, away from home and my usual commuting and exercising habits, I listened in short grabs, either just before going to sleep or when I woke up in the early hours of the morning and wanted to get back to sleep again. I had to re-listen to bits I'd missed by dozing off, which does not make for a smooth and cohesive literary experience. In addition, it’s a reasonably short book, but it’s taken me a month or so to finish, which is not good when I have such a poor memory for plot details. That said, I enjoyed the book much more than I thought I would. I've not read a huge amount of Hemingway, although I've read enough to know that he's not my favourite writer. However, I like the deceptive simplicity of Hemingway's prose - a simplicity extraordinarily difficult to achieve. I also like the way in which Hemingway used his personal experience of being a volunteer ambulance driver at the Italian front during World War I to ground the plot. And I appreciate the complete absence bull fighting in this novel, a passion of Hemingway's to which I cannot relate. Slattery’s narration is excellent. Thankfully, he’s not one of those male narrators who heads into the falsetto range when voicing a female character. Overall, this has been an unusual audiobook experience for me, but a worthwhile one nevertheless.

[andreiz_28 · Nota: 2 de 5 estrelas]

Read it because it's considered a classic, but did not enjoy it. Hemingway's writing style is fairly disagreeable, at least to me, and at times it felt like the story (what little of it was there) hid behind the staccato of sentences. The conversations between between Henry and Catherine were cloyingly sweet at times and full of apparent misogynism ("I'll be the best girl you'll ever want, darling, I promise").

[alcracka · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

Wonderful stuff, and let's point out that for all Hemingway's reputation is Mr. Tough Guy, his character is a total little bitch all through this. "Ooh, I'm so tough about escaping from dudes who want to shoot me but now I will moon over my girlfriend for like ten pages." He's in looooooove. Big, mushy, gross love.

I heard this was one of the greatest war novels ever, but it's barely even about war. However: it's an awfully nice love story.

[timothyl33 · Nota: 3 de 5 estrelas]

As having never read a book by Ernest Hemingway before, this seminal work was my first experience into his bibliography of work. Considered to be a semi-autobiographical work, 'A Farewell to Arms' is the story of Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver for the Italian Army during World War I. While there, he soon experiences horror of a total and seemingly endless war that slowly seems to grind even the best of men to cynicism and despair.Parallel to this story is the romance that develops between Frederic and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, who helps Henry recuperate after receiving a shrapnel injury at the front.Overall, 'A Farewell to Arms' can be considered as a first hand experience of military life at on the Italian Front. Though not quite as indepth with both characters and story, as Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front', the story still manages to pain a grim picture of life in a war that never seems to end. This is especially punctuated during the disastrous retreat of the Battle of Caporetto.If there is a weakness to this book for me, it is probably from the unbelievable romance that develops between Henry and Barkley. Perhaps, it's one of those cases where, a product needs to be divorced from a contemporary mindset. Whereas the romance that develops in this book would be considered as "TMI" (too much information) during the time it was first published. Regardless, where as the development of the romance felt artificial and superficial, the tragic resolution of it at the end of the novel, more than makes up for its weak beginning.While I wouldn't consider this one of the greatest books I've ever read, it certainly raised awareness and interested of the Italian Front of World War I for me.

[deslni01 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

"A Farewell to Arms" is a classic piece of literature from one of the most well known authors, Ernest Hemingway. Set in Italy during World War I, Frederic Henry - an American volunteer ambulance driver for the Italian army - falls in love with nurse Catherine Barkley and their love affair grows.Hemingway is famed for his short, terse prose that somehow evokes emotions through declarative sentence after declarative sentence and "Farewell" is one of the most shining examples of his style. Initially the dialogue may leave some readers wanting, as each line of dialogue is only a sentence or two at the most. The character of Catherine Barkley is interesting in that she seems to have no feelings or goal in life other than to make Frederic Henry happy - and she will do anything to make him happy.Those are really the only qualms against the story, as it is an excellent, emotional story of love and war that will captivate and grip most readers and leave them breathless at the end.

[lunarreader · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

A classic. Righty so.What a great novel! Man, woman, the war, friendship, respect, love, despair, cruelty .... All the big themes in a love story that in the same time is a powerful anti-war statement. A story of courage and of despair in the same chapter. A strong "wish i was here" feeling that in the same lines turns to an even stronger "i wish i was not here" sentiment.The very easy looking writing style reinforces this, the robustness of the story is in this very straight forward writing, empowered by the repeats of words, sentences and feelings which give the storyline in moments a kind of mantra-like voodoo-ism. I am lucky, i am so lucky, i don't know how lucky i am, please tell me we are lucky ... One can see from faraway that this "lick" is under heavy threats and the repeats try to give some strength to the idea.Amazing for me is that this story is still so readable, so attractive, whilst it is nearly a hundred years old.Hemingway is really one of the great writers of his time.

[mariusgm-1 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

My favorite Hemingway!

[silverwing2332 · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

This book is rather depressing, which is not a bad thing (and does not mean that the ending is sad, so this is not a spoiler), the general tone of the piece is disconnected and sad. I hated most of the characters in this book, and was happy when this book was over. The details in the book about the war are very effective and helps convey how terrible the war was.

[glorybe1 · Nota: 2 de 5 estrelas]

I really can't say I enjoyed this book. I couldn't connect with the main character at all, I found his writing style very disjointed and old fashioned. And couldn't really find anything great about it. Catherine seemed a bit nutty to me, darling this and that, with totally inane comments throughout. The ending was sad, but that was about it for me!

[soylentgreen23 · Nota: 4 de 5 estrelas]

It's funny how I sometimes read books for the silliest of reasons. In this case, I took this beautiful orange book with me to the Algarve in Portugal simply because of a throwaway reference in Raimi's second "Evil Dead" movie.The story is terrific - exiting and moving and terrifying when it needs to be. It is one of Hemingway's most popular tales, of the ambulanceman injured in the war, who falls in love with a nurse and tries to escape with her into Switzerland. The ending rates amongst the most tragic ever written.

[cindyb29 · Nota: 1 de 5 estrelas]

I don't like the way he writes--very wordy and repetitive, long run-on sentences--never sure who is talking. Didn't like the dialogue: very stilted;

[santhony_35 · Nota: 5 de 5 estrelas]

This is my second shot at Hemingway, having recently read The Sun Also Rises. Interestingly enough, I found the two reading experiences almost identical. As was the case with "Sun", I was initially underwhelmed, but around midway through the book, felt myself drawn into the story and by the end, was reluctant to put the book down. Hemingway certainly has his own signature style. Clipped, terse, single sentence dialogue that at times borders on the absurd. Perhaps it is the act of becoming comfortable and familiar with the style that results in his works starting slow and building to a strong finish, because at its root, this is simply a magnificent story, built upon a singular historical event. It was Hemingway's own experience as a stretcher bearer on the Austro-Italian front that provided the motivation and basis for the story. I've seen some label this an anti-war novel, but I simply don't see it. It is anti-war to the extent that it doesn't glorify the act of war, but it is not political. The front line soldiers certainly are not pro-war, but honestly, except in the case of the odd megalomaniacs and psychopaths, given the choice most would opt for peace. At its root, this is a love story set amid extremely difficult and trying circumstances. Finally, as with much of Hemingway, don't expect a happy ending.