Autumn, when "the trees were all bare and the roads were muddy," is the setting for a meeting between the protagonist and a friend who angrily suspects he has syphilis. Sex as a theme is revisited when a group of characters discusses opera singers and then heads to a brothel in Gorizia, and when the protagonist tells his lover that he has gonorrhea. After his leg heals, a mutinous retreat at Caporetto drives the protagonist to desert the army and escape to Switzerland wi
Autumn, when "the trees were all bare and the roads were muddy," is the setting for a meeting between the protagonist and a friend who angrily suspects he has syphilis. Sex as a theme is revisited when a group of characters discusses opera singers and then heads to a brothel in Gorizia, and when the protagonist tells his lover that he has gonorrhea. After his leg heals, a mutinous retreat at Caporetto drives the protagonist to desert the army and escape to Switzerland with his pregnant lover, who dies giving birth to a stillborn child. FTP, name this novel about the love between Frederic Henry and the nurse Catherine Barkley in Italy during World War I, a work by Ernest Hemingway.
Autumn, when "the trees were all bare and the roads were muddy," is the setting for a meeting between the protagonist and a friend who angrily suspects he has syphilis.
A {Farewell to Arms}