| Description |
1 online resource (119 pages) |
| Note |
"Originally published in France as 14 by Les Éditions de Minuit, 7, rue Bernard-Palissy, 75006, Paris, 2012"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi-award winning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiable and still unthinkable carnage of trench warfare. With the delicacy of a miniaturist and with irony both witty and clear-eyed, the author offers us an intimate epic with the atmosphere of a classic movie: in the panorama of a clear blue sky, a biplane spirals suddenly into the ground; a tardy piece of shrapnel shears the top off a man's head as if it were a soft-boiled egg; we dawdle dreamily in a springscented clearing with a lonely shellshocked soldier strolling innocently to a firing squad ready to shoot him. |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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| Chronological Term |
1914 - 1918
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| Genre/Form |
War stories (OCoLC)fst01726773
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War stories.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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War stories.
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Coverdale, Linda, translator.
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| Added Title |
14. English
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Nineteen fourteen |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781595589118 |
| ISBN |
9781595589248 electronic bk. |
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1595589244 electronic bk. |
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1306438047 electronic bk. |
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9781306438049 electronic bk. |
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9788433927941 electronic bk. |
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8433927949 electronic bk. |
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