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The Camouflage
of the Sacred in the Short Fiction of Hemingway |
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ALI ZAIDI |
State University of New York
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Abstract |
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This
essay examines the short fiction of Ernest Hemingway in the
light of Mircea Eliade’s notion of the camouflage of the
sacred and the larval survival of original spiritual
meaning. A
subterranean love pulsates beneath the terse dialogue of
Hemingway’s characters whose inner life we glimpse only
obliquely. In the short play (“Today Is Friday”) and four
short stories (“The Killers,” “A Clean Well-Lighted Place,”
“Old Man at the Bridge,” and “The Light of the World,”
discussed here, light imagery, biblical allusions, and the
figure of Christ, reveal a hidden imaginary universe. This
sacral dimension has been largely overlooked by critics who
dwell on the ostensible spiritual absence that characterizes
Hemingway’s fiction.
Keywords: Ernest Hemingway;
Mircea Eliade; short story; the sacred
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