Прощай, оружие!

"Proshchaĭ, oruzhie!" neizmenno nazyvai͡ut v chisle velichaĭshikh amerikanskikh romanov. Izdannyĭ v 1929 godu, on stal vtorym romanom Ėrnesta Kheminguėi͡a, budushchego nobelevskogo laureata, i zakrepil za nim reputat͡sii͡u odnogo iz samykh znachitelʹnykh pisateleĭ svoego pokolenii͡a. Istorii͡a li͡ubvi, razvorachivai͡ushchai͡asi͡a na fone sobytiĭ Pervoĭ mirovoĭ voĭny, vo mnogom avtobiografichna: kak kogda-to sam avtor, geroĭ romana dobrovolʹt͡sem otpravli͡aetsi͡a na italʹi͡anskiĭ front, sluzhit v transportnom otdelenii Krasnogo Kresta i znakomitsi͡a s krasavit͡seĭ-medsestroĭ. Kheminguėĭ vspominal, chto chuvstvoval sebi͡a kak nikogda schastlivym, sozdavai͡a ėtot neveroi͡atno trogatelʹnyĭ roman o vli͡ublennykh, pytai͡ushchikhsi͡a naĭti ubezhishche v mire, obezumevshem ot voĭny. "Tot fakt, chto kniga poluchilasʹ tragichnoĭ, meni͡a ne rasstraival, poskolʹku i͡a znal, chto zhiznʹ - ėto tragedii͡a i ee final predopredelen. No ponimanie, chto u meni͡a poluchaetsi͡a sochini͡atʹ, i nastolʹko pravdivo, chto samomu nravitsi͡a chitatʹ, nachinai͡a s ėtogo ezhednevnui͡u rabotu, dostavli͡alo mne ni s chem ne sravnimoe udovolʹstvie. A bolʹshe nichto ne imeet znachenii͡a". Roman pechataetsi͡a v novom perevode.

"Farewell to Arms!" is consistently named among the greatest American novels. Published in 1929, it became the second novel by Ernest Hemingway, the future Nobel laureate, and cemented his reputation as one of the most significant writers of his generation. The love story unfolding against the backdrop of the events of the First World War is largely autobiographical.: Like the author himself, the hero of the novel volunteers for the Italian front, serves in the Red Cross transport department and meets a beautiful nurse. Hemingway recalled that he felt happier than ever, creating this incredibly touching novel about lovers trying to find refuge in a world distraught by war. "The fact that the book turned out to be tragic didn't upset me, because I knew that life is a tragedy and its ending is predetermined. But understanding that I was able to compose, and so truthfully that I enjoyed reading myself, starting with my daily work, gave me incomparable pleasure. And nothing else matters." The novel is being published in a new translation.