Nizhnevartovsk Philological BulletinNizhnevartovsk Philological Bulletin2500-1795Nizhnevartovsk State University89216Research ArticleHeroic and tragic in the novel “A farewell to arms”BukhantsovaEvgeniya V.e.v.bukhantsova@gmail.comNakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School (Sevastopol)1506202161768226112021Copyright © 2021, Bukhantsova E.V.2021<p>Attempts to understand Ernest Hemingway are reflected in more than one hundred and fifty studies. F. Young tried to reveal the secrets of creating main characters portraits, E. Halliday paid attention to the place of irony, K. Baker focused on the issue of narrative perspective, I. Finkelstein considered the ideological content, M. Mendelsohn and I. Zasursky analyzed love and military lines. All literary critics have noted a certain ambiguity in battle scenes. They necessarily pose two problems: the cost of brave behavior (or cowardly one) and the payment for it. In this way the dual nature of military aggression is emphasized. Horrors of bloody battles, broken human destinies, and painful relationships are combined with heroic feats, true patriotism, foolish risk, cowardice. The unification and opposition of the tragic and the heroic (non-heroic) is the topic of this article. This research is carried out on the material of the novel. Research methodology is literary analysis. Everything is quite traditional here. The goal is non-standard: to reveal the ways and methods of expressing the heroic and tragic, to show connection of these so different manifestations. Tasks are also interesting: to reveal the features of the time of creation of the novel, the author's attitude to the war, to compare images of heroic acts and tragedies. Their decision leads to interesting conclusions. The years of writing the novel were extremely depressing. Heroic acts suddenly lost their meaning, only tragic events remained important. Epoch-making phenomena (economic collapse, social decline, spiritual crisis) helped the author rethink the meaning of the First World War, to see in it a ruthless force that awoke dangerous diseases, lead to madness, provoked cataclysms. These conclusions force us to revalue the tragic and heroic in the novel, the side that is the least studied.</p>Hemingwaywartragicheroicheroic featsХемингуэйвойнагероическоетрагическоеподвиг[Butenina E.M. Mul'tikul'turnyi roman SShA. Moscow: Flinta, 2013. (in Russian).][Gribanov B.T. Ernest Kheminguei. Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1970. (in Russian).][Zasurskii Ya.N. Amerikanskii roman XX veka. M.: Prosveshchenie, 1984. (in Russian).][Kashkin I.A. Ernest Kheminguei. Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1966. (in Russian).][Kirichuk E.V. Istoriya zarubezhnoi literatury XX veka. Moscow: Nauka, 2012. (in Russian).][Simonov K.M. Voennaya tema v tvorchestve Khemingueya. Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya literatura, 1968. (in Russian).][Kheminguei E. Proshchai, oruzhie! Khar'kov: Ranok-NT, 2003. (in Russian).][Moddelmog Debra, del Gizzo Suzanne. Ernest Hemingway in context. Cambridge: Cambridge univ. press, 2013.]