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Posted by Pjk on July 01, 192003 at 14:30:36:
In Reply to: existentialism in works of ernest hemingway posted by hekmat on July 01, 192003 at 10:55:53:
: please help me
Two quotes from John Killinger's book Hemingway and the Dead Gods: A Study in Existentialism.
1. "This is a study of the fictional world of Ernest Hemingway as it is related to the world view of Existentialism. properly speaking, Hemingway is not an Existentialist, for there has been no known liason between him and the existentialsists, niether personally nor intellectually, and neither has ever formally recognized a kinship to the other.
2. In A Farewell to Arms there is this celebrated page. "There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers wee the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates."
This is existential sentiment, emphasizing the real kinship between the philosophy of existance and the science of phenomenology; value is only in living, not in abstractions, and concrete places and people are meaningful because we determine our selves in relation to the things around us. Glory, honor, courage and sanctity are conceptions of a "complicated" ethics.
Sartre has said that the writer;s is to cure the "sick" language that is incommunicative. Iris Murdoch, in attempting to answer what the sickness of the language really is, says it is the fact that we can no longer take language for granted as a medium of communication. "Its transparancy has gone. We are like people who for a long time looked out of a window without noticing the gl - and then one day began to notice this too.
Hemingway also feals this way. Out time demands a simple prose. with an Eliot-like emphasis on semntics.
Prolly doens't help much, but what you want to do requires projecting what would become Existentialist sentiments backwards several years onto A Farewell to Arms. This is what Killinger tries to do.
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