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- Title
"'I Was Made to Eat': Food and Brillat-Savarin's Genesiac Sense in 'A Farewell to Arms.'".
- Authors
Camastra, Nicole J.
- Abstract
This essay uses a seminal treatise, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's "Physiology of Taste" (1825), as a touchstone for reading the gastronomical subtext in "A Farewell to Arms." Applying some of Brillat-Savarin's principles to the novel, it posits that Frederic's relationship with the priest is inextricably connected to Frederic's manner of consumption, which shifts after his epiphany: "I was made to eat. My God, yes. Eat and drink and sleep with Catherine." Eating subsequently grants more than sustenance; it offers teleology.
- Subjects
FAREWELL to Arms, A (Book : Hemingway); HEMINGWAY, Ernest, 1899-1961; PHYSIOLOGY of Taste (Book); BRILLAT-Savarin, 1755-1826; CONSUMPTION (Economics)
- Publication
Hemingway Review, 2013, Vol 33, Issue 1, p86
- ISSN
0276-3362
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/hem.2013.0017