Modern Era · North America · Culture
1929
Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms
1929
Ernest Hemingway's novel of an American ambulance driver's love affair during the Italian retreat from Caporetto captured the lost generation's disillusionment in plain, muscular prose stripped of Victorian ornament. The book made Hemingway famous, established him as the foremost American novelist of his generation, and became a template for modern fiction. War literature had found its iceberg style.
In context
Also in 1929 (4 other events on record)
- Wall Street crashes · North America · Politics
- Lateran Treaty creates Vatican City · Europe · Religion
- Saint Valentine's Day Massacre · North America · Politics
- Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury · North America · Culture
Before and after in North America
Before and after in Culture
Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.