"On the Quai at Smyrna" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway which was published in 1930. Hemingway described episodes of the Greek-Turkish war.
It is a documentary presentation featuring an eyewitness of the events and consequences that took place during the Greek-Turkish war. This is a narration about the suffering of the exiled Greeks awaiting evacuation - who endured unthinkable conditions, in a small area of the port pier.
Literary critics, describing the short style of Hemingway's works, call it "telegraphic". The author wrote about various atrocities, but he told the story without emotions as if it was a narration from the outside. Hemingway left his readers to make their own opinion about the events that he witnessed.
This is a link to the text of the story:
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