Hemingway

Hemingway was widely recognized for both his novels and numerous stories — on the one hand, and his life full of adventures and surprises — on the other. His style, brief and rich, greatly influenced the literature of the 20th century.

"In a foreign country" is a story about the war, or rather about those for whom she finished. About people who were forced to leave the battlefield because of serious injuries.

The main character of this story, as well as the Lieutenant from the novel "goodbye, weapons!", seriously damaged knee. But in the past he was an athlete, played football. And such people in the hospital gathered a lot.

"In autumn the war was still going on, but for us it was over. V

Milan in the fall it was cold and getting dark very early. Electric lights were lit, and it was nice to wander the streets, looking at the Windows. Outside the shops hung a lot of game, the fur of foxes powdered with snow, and the wind blew Fox tails. Frozen gutted deer carcasses hung heavily to the ground, and small birds swayed in the wind, and the wind ruffled their feathers. It was cold autumn, and the wind was blowing from the mountains."

The beginning makes you think that no matter how hard it was for people, they always had a desire to live and return home to their relatives. Faith in the future and in the possibilities makes a person do things that have no material value, but they are happy with what they could. Unfortunately the ending was logical and it's sad, because the characters are supposed to live happily ever after.

" Before the apparatus of the major hung three pictures, which were hands, such as his, became quite normal, after treatment. I don't know where the doctor got these pictures. I always thought we were the first to be treated with these machines. But to the major pictures did not inspire any hope, - he looked past them, in a window."