It is about 1-page in length, but it is hardly a story at all. The STRANGE thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight. That always did the trick. We used to turn the searchlight on them to quiet them. “On the Quai at Smyrna” is a short story by Hemingway that sheds light on genocide in modern warfare by going beyond political and military affairs to reveal a sensitive truth that exposes the emotional and ethical crisis of those facing the repercussions of old men’s wars. As the last Greek troops evacuated Smyrna on the evening of Friday 8 September, the first elements of Mustafa Kemal's forces, a Turkish cavalry squadron, made its way into the city from the northern tip of the quay the following morning, establishing their headquarters at the main government building called Konak. We were in the harbor and they were all on the pier and at midnight they started screaming. "ON THE QUAI AT SMYRNA" is one of four fictions of In Our Time whose topical context is the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-22. "On The Quai at Smyrna" is an unusual short story by Ernest Hemingway. It argues that the Smyrna Disaster is the first event in modern Greek history after the Greek War of Independence to gain a secure place in English literature and language thanks to Hemingway; the text that canonized it was Hemingway's “On the Quai at Smyrna”. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Save us. On the Quai at Smyrna By Srdja Trifkovic Accounts of other disappeared communities—of Italians in today’s Croatia, the Poles of Galicia, the Serbs of the former Habsburg Military Border, or Germans everywhere east of the Oder-Neisse line—are available in the languages of … This chapter explores the dominant status of Hemingway's text for writing in English about events in postwar Asia Minor. Howev-er, the initial publication of six of the pieces that would be part of the 1924 Paris edition first appeared through Ezra Pound’s encour- ON THE QUAI AT SMYRNA. The strange thing was, she said, that the ships would turn on their searchlights on us at night. The nights were especially hard. On the Quay at Smyrna (Working Titles Book 13) - Kindle edition by Demopoulos, Margot, Thurston, Michael . The Greco-Turkish War was a proxy war that… Accompanying it was an introduction by Edmund Wilson. ON THE QUAI AT SMYRNA by Ernest Hemingway. The Quai at Smyrna” in 1930 preceding the rest of the text as his Introduction, which is the final substantive form of the book apart from the addition of the title for the Introduction in 1938. "On the Quai at Smyrna" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, first published in the 1930 Scribner's edition of the In Our Time collection of short stories, then titled "Introduction by the author". 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