|
Product Description
An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation
1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted “war to end all wars” seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter. After he is wounded, he returns from the front to discover a world where no one knows or wants to know any of this. Both the public and the authorities go on talking about heroes—and sending more men to their graves. But Jean refuses to keep silent. He will speak the forbidden word. He will tell them about fear.
John Berger has called Fear “a book of the utmost urgency and relevance.” A literary masterpiece, it is also an essential and unforgettable reckoning with the terrible war that gave birth to a century of war.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Tea in the Harem
- Twentieth Century Voices: Selected Readings in World History (Revised Edition)
- Burmese Days: A Novel
- Schlump
- Train to Pakistan
- How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
- The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 (New York Review Books Classics)
- Darkness at Noon: A Novel
- Storm of Steel: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
*If this is not the "Fear: A Novel of World War I (New York Review Books Classics)" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Oct 25, 2024 02:28 +08.