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Compassion and Acceptance of Human Animality in a Selection of Liam O’Flaherty’s Stories. Liam O’Flaherty’s numerous stories dealing with animals are generally considered his best artistic efforts. Scholars have highlighted how he humbled anthropocentric pride and even effaced the narrator and the human point of view from them. My contention, however, is that these stories can also be interpreted as O’Flaherty’s literary meditation on the absence of ‘good discontinuities’ between humans and animals, and on the importance of constructing the human/animal encounter on the acceptance of the existence of an interspecies communion. In his stories, humans do not necessarily possess something that animals lack, such as the capability of feeling compassion. Humans often fail to have compassion for other animals or human beings, for they deny that a communion obtains among all the living. These humans are capable of taking delight in another’s suffering and so disrupt both their equilibrium with potentially negative consequences and the present ‘ecological equilibrium’, which has to be restored. Hence, O’Flaherty’s short stories can be seen as earlier literary responses to contemporary works on human/animal ethics and genuine ethe of care (Derrida; Nussbaum; Wolfe), which will be discussed here together with selected empirical studies on the same subject (de Waal; Goetz, Keltner, and Simon-Thomas).
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Short stories written by Dimitrije Bukvić: "Ostrvo", "Virus", "Na aerodromu", "Lovci i sakupljači".
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Short stories written by Silvio Lebinac: “Sirena”, “Mačka na grani”, “Mona Lisa”, “Obraz, ali drugi”, “Moćni”, “Ptice”, “Put u središte Zemlje”, “Skok padobranom”, “U prirodi”, “Ustati na lijevu nogu”, “Bravica”, “Toplo–hladno”, “Tko govori”, “Vinske mušice imaju ružičaste oči”, “Zub”, “Zauvijek mlad”, “Epilog: Maratonac pod upitnikom”, “Je li ovo epilog ili pogovor?”
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Monotoniziranje svijeta. Najjači duhovni dojam sa svakoga putovanja posljednjih godina, usprkos svakom pojedinačnom usrećenju, tihi je strah od monotoniziranja svijeta. Sve postaje jednoliko u vanjskim oblicima života, sve se nivelira na uniformnu kulturnu shemu. Individualna ponašanja narodā ujednačuju se, nošnje postaju uniformne, običaji internacionalni. Sve se više čini da zemlje ulaze, tako reći, jedna u drugu, ljudi djeluju i žive po jednoj shemi, gradovi izvanjski sve više nalikuju jedan drugome. Pariz je tri četvrtine amerikaniziran, Beč budimpeštiziran: sve više isparava lijepa aroma posebnoga u kulturama, sve brže nestaju boje i ispod napuknutoga sloja firnisa postaje vidljivim čelično obojen držak mehaničkoga pogona, moderni stroj svijeta.
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