ABSURDITY AND THE LOSS OF WAR ETHICS IN THE NOVELS OF PETRO MARKO AND ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Abstract

Topic Absurdity and the loss of war ethics in the novels of Petro Marko and Ernest Hemingway, war is presented as a state of madness and meaninglessness by those who invented it. We find this unequal human conflict where real life and literary motivation interweave with each other, in the novels of Petro Marko between Italians and Albanians, while Ernest Hemingway talks about the absurdity of the Italian-Austrian war and the war between Francoists and Republican forces of volunteers from all over the world. Two writers and two fighters who experienced great challenges during these conflicts, transformed and immortalized all the experiences, ideas, perspectives, and worldviews of this war into works of art, thereby creating their original universe. Otherworld and European authors also wrote novels on the subject of war, such as Erich Maria Remarque, known for his famous work Nothing New on the Western Front, published in 1929. Remarque himself was on this front for ten days and saw it for namely the futility and inequality of war. The war lost him forever, the aura of honor he had until then.