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In Another Country

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Short story by Ernest Hemingway
For the 2012 South Korean film, see In Another Country (film).
"In Another Country"
Short story by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway in Italy, 1918
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)short story
Publication
Published inMen Without Women
Publication typeshort story collection
Publication date1927
Chronology

"In Another Country" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway.[1] It was published in Hemingway's 1927 short story collection, Men Without Women. The story deals with WWI soldiers receiving treatment in Italy during the war.

Summary

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The short story is about an ambulance corps member in Milan during World War I.[2] Although unnamed, he is assumed to be Nick Adams, a character Hemingway made to represent himself. He has an injured knee and visits a hospital daily for rehabilitation. Machines are used to speed the healing with the doctors making much of the miraculous new technology.[3] They show pictures to the wounded of injuries like theirs healed by the machines, but the war-hardened soldiers are portrayed as skeptical, perhaps justifiably so.

As the narrator walks through the streets with fellow soldiers, the townspeople hate them openly because they are officers. Their oasis is Café Cova, where the waitresses are very patriotic.[4]

When the fellow soldiers admire the protagonist's medal, they learn that he is American, and therefore view him as an outsider. The protagonist accepts this since he feels that they have done far more to earn their medals than he has.

The story then shifts to the friendship between the narrator and an Italian major, who was once a champion fencer but now has a withered hand that has not been cured by the machines. The major becomes grief-stricken when he learns that his wife has suddenly and unexpectedly died of pneumonia.[5]

The American writer Andre Dubus, who cites this story as an influence on his own writing, sees "In Another Country" as a story about healing and the desire to survive despite suffering. Dubus writes, "The major keeps going to the machines. And he doesn't believe in them. But he gets out of his bed in the morning. He brushes his teeth. He shaves. He combs his hair. He puts on his uniform. He leaves the place where he lives. He walks to the hospital, and sits at the machines. Every one of those actions is a movement away from suicide. Away from despair."[6]

References

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  1. ^ "In Another Country". medhum.med.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019年07月10日.
  2. ^ Halter, Peter (1990年12月01日). "Indeterminacy in Hemingway's 'In Another Country'". English Studies. 71 (6): 523–534. doi:10.1080/00138389008598722. ISSN 0013-838X.
  3. ^ Monteiro, George (1988年09月01日). "The major's therapy: Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country"". The Journal of Medical Humanities and Bioethics. 9 (2): 143–152. doi:10.1007/BF01139239. ISSN 1573-3645.
  4. ^ "In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway | Major English | Class 12 - Mero Notice" . Retrieved 2021年04月06日.
  5. ^ "In Another Country - Hemingway's Original Text". olypen.com. Retrieved 2014年02月13日.
  6. ^ Dubus, Andre (Spring 1997). "A Hemingway Story". The Kenyon Review. 19 (2): 141–147. JSTOR 4337534.
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