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Stalked by Greed |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: G. Travis Regier |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,900 Words, 10,937 Characters |
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THE LAST HUNT
Horst Stern, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider
New York: Random House, 1993
155 pp., $18.00
Like the wild game they pursue, hunters are a vanishing species. Animal-rights activists paint them as bloodthirsty barbarians, or alternatively, as juvenile gun-fetishists. Signs on the sides of buses in New York City blare You Should Be Ashamed to Wear Fur. In literature, hunters don't fare much better. For every Theodore Roosevelt or Ernest Hemingway who takes up pen to defend the hunter, there are authors such as Cleveland Amory, who in ManKind? Our Incredible War on Wildlife collected hundreds of anecdotes designed to expose hunters as fools and knaves. In Kent Nelson's All Around Me Peaceful, a Colorado woman defines hunting as "drinking with guns." Even some anthropologists have begun to question the stereotype of the prehistoric hunter, suggesting that Stone Age people may have spent more time gathering berries and digging roots than pursuing the beasts of the field.
But for a literary coup de grace to hunting, we must turn to Horst Stern's novella ...
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...s . . . . Money has been his tried and true method of straightening out the things that went wrong in his life." Joop remains a symbol of capitalist greed, haunted by the memory of the bear's death, which he thinks of as an "execution." The reader too may be haunted by this disturbing and powerful novella and may feel a closer kinship with the animals we are crowding out of our shared world.
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