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Laura Weinrib reads Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated 1929 novel as an indictment of war’s moral and legal logic. While commentary on A Farewell to Arms has typically emphasized the transgressive nature of Henry and Barkley’s love affair, Weinrib argues that the novel’s unmarried protagonists may in fact have entered into a common law marriage, and, at minimum, both their relationship and their unborn child are capable of retroactive legitimation. The sentimentality and comparative conventionality of the love story, according to Weinrib, accentuate the brutality of wartime conduct, which Hemingway regarded as irredeemably criminal. By the same token, the navigability and relative predictability of the civilian legal system stand in stark contrast to the arbitrariness of the wartime legal order. |
