Fear
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Main Flagstaff Public Library - Fiction
F CHEVALLIER, GABRIEL
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F CHEVALLIER, GABRIEL
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Book
Physical Desc
xv, 305 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Translation of; Peur.
Description
"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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Chevallier, G., & Malcolm, I. (2014). Fear . Random House Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chevallier, Gabriel, 1895-1969 and Imrie. Malcolm. 2014. Fear. Random House Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chevallier, Gabriel, 1895-1969 and Imrie. Malcolm. Fear Random House Inc, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Chevallier, Gabriel, and Imrie Malcolm. Fear Random House Inc, 2014.
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