短篇小说《异乡客》是爱尔兰作家弗兰克·奥康纳的代表作品之一,小说讲述了一个发生在爱尔兰独立战争中的故事。与很多战争题材的作品不同,这篇小说的场景并没有设在硝烟弥漫的战场,而是在爱尔兰的一个普通农舍里。在这个点着油灯的小屋里,英国战俘和爱尔兰看守热闹地玩着扑克,气氛和谐融洽,似乎战争并不能阻碍两国人民之间的友谊。然而,随着故事的发展,战争的残酷和荒诞逐渐展露,爱尔兰看守接到上级的命令,被迫杀害了 Short story “stranger” is one of the representative works of the Irish writer Frank O’Connor, the novel tells a story in the Irish War of Independence. Unlike many works on the war theme, the novel’s scene is not located in a smoke-filled battlefield, but in an ordinary farmhouse in Ireland. In this lighted lamp hut, British POWs and Irish guards are playing poker enthusiastically in a harmonious atmosphere. It seems that the war does not hinder the friendship between the two peoples. However, as the story unfolds, the brutality and absurdity of the war gradually reveal that the Irish caretaker was ordered by his superiors to be forced to kill