ヘミングウエイの'the simplest things'について(一)

概要

論文の詳細を見る
Hemingway is different from his contemporaries in that he, in a sense, is a pessimistic and melancholic existentialist. He let his protagonist, Santiago, say that 'But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.' but was he really not defeated as he said? Santiago may not have been defeated, but was Hemingway himself destroyed or defeated? Hemingway cruised about in pursuit of the meaning of Nada or Nothingness and he knew that 'Winner take nothing', that man is born to be caught in the trap and that he is on the way to death from the very day when he is born. And thus he, Hemingway lacked, in a certain sense, toughness and strongness which he himself wanted to have and he believed he had. In various respects, Hemingway is similar to Byron. Byron died his miserable death very manly, without compromising with anyone or any god. Byron may be said a real existentialist, 'L'homme Revolte' but Hemingway was miserably defeated, he was not L'homme Revolte to the last.
1972-10-30