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Author Chevallier, Gabriel, 1895-1969.

Title Fear : a novel of World War I / Gabriel Chevallier ; translated from the French by Malcolm Imrie ; introduction by John Berger.

Publication Info. New York : New York Review Books, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F CHEVALLIER GABRIEL    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F CHEVALLIER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F CHEVALLIER, GABRIEL    Check Shelf
Description xv, 305 pages ; 21 cm.
Series New York Review Books classics
New York Review Books classics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "Fear is a classic of war literature, a book to place on the shelf with Storm of Steel, A Farewell to Arms, and Going After Cacciato. Jean Dartemont, the hero of Gabriel Chevallier's autobiographical novel, enters what was not yet known as World War I in 1915, when it was just beginning to be clear that a war that all the combatants were initially confident would move swiftly to a conclusion was instead frozen murderously in place. After enduring the horrors of the trenches and the deadly leagues of no-man's-land stretching beyond them, Jean is wounded and hospitalized. Away from the front, he confronts the relentless blindness of the authorities and much of the general public to the hideous realities of modern, mechanized combat. Jean decides he must resist. How? By telling the simple truth. Urged to encourage new recruits with tales of derring-do service, Jean does not mince words. What did he do on the battlefield? He responds like a man: "I was afraid." Acclaimed as "the most beautiful book ever written on the tragic events that blood-stained Europe" for five years, prosecuted on first publication as an act of sedition, Fear appears for the first time in the United States in Malcolm Imrie's poetic and prizewinning translation on the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, the conflict with which the twentieth century came into its own. Chevallier's masterpiece remains, in the words of John Berger, "a book of the utmost urgency and relevance.""-- Provided by publisher.
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
War stories
FICTION / War & Military.
FICTION / Biographical.
FICTION / Historical.
Added Author Malcolm, Imrie, translator.
Added Title Peur. English
ISBN 9781590177167 paperback
1590177169 paperback
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