Le paradoxe du langage chez Hemingway : le triomphe du non-dit dans la nouvelle "Hills like white elephants"

International audienceAn in-depth reading of the short story Hills like White Elephants brings to light an unexpectedly moving human situation of inability of the characters to sympathize, to understand and to communicate within the couple, that is explored to its tragic limits. This sub-text perceptible through the flat unemotional style is a powerful illustration of the fact that the unsaid may be more pregnant with meaning than the openly expressed message apparent on the surface of Hemingway’s writing