Reading “On the Quai at Smyrna” and “A Natural History of the Dead” in Consideration of Hemingway’s Anti-Humanism

M. Norris
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Abstract:This article proposes that readers consider “On the Quai at Smyrna” and “A Natural History of the Dead” as part of the same conceptual project. Both pieces advance a negative critique of humanism that blurs the distinctions between human and animal. Despite religious and pseudo-religious narratives to the contrary, human life is not superior to animal life, Hemingway discovers, for we are all of us violent beasts who eventually end up in the ground. These works reject the idea that we are fundamentally superior to nonhuman entities. Likewise, they reject the idea that human life is sacred.
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摘要:本文建议读者将《在士麦那的码头上》和《死者自然史》视为同一个概念项目的一部分。这两件作品都对模糊人与动物之间区别的人文主义提出了负面批评。海明威发现,尽管宗教和伪宗教的叙述与之相反,但人类的生命并不比动物的生命优越,因为我们都是最终会葬身地下的暴力野兽。这些作品反对我们从根本上优于非人类实体的观点。同样,他们也反对人的生命是神圣的。
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