- Title
- It Was All a Pleasant Business: The Historical Context of "On the Quai at Smyrna"
- Author/Creator
- Matthew Stewart
- Publication Details
- Hemingway Review, Vol.23(1), pp.58-71
- Annotation
- Argues that an understanding of the story s diplomatic and military background is key to clarifying its tone and the reasons behind the narrator s manner of speaking. After providing a detailed historical account of the Smyrna debacle during the Greco-Turkish conflict of 1919-22, Stewart postulates that the story s anonymous narrator is a British officer dealing with extreme guilt over his enforced inaction during the inhumane disaster.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015130958203691
Journal article
It Was All a Pleasant Business: The Historical Context of "On the Quai at Smyrna"
Hemingway Review, Vol.23(1), pp.58-71
10/01/2003
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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