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In parenthesis / David Jones ; foreword by W.S. Merwin.
LIBRA PR6019.O53 I6 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, David, 1895-1974.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- War stories.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2003]
- Summary:
- "This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern literature. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter talk and high music, wartime terror and ancient myth, Jones, who served as an infantryman on the Western Front, presents a picture at once panoramic and intimate of a world of interminable waiting and unforeseen death. And yet throughout he remains alert to the flashes of humanity that light up the wasteland of war.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The many men so beautiful 1
- Part 2 Chambers go off, corporals stay 13
- Part 3 Starlight order 27
- Part 4 King Pellam's Launde 59
- Part 5 Squat garlands for White Knights 103
- Part 6 Pavilions and Captains of Hundreds 135
- Part 7 The five unmistakable marks 153.
- Notes:
- "Seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu"--Quote from Y. Gododdin.
- Originally published: London : Faber & Faber, 1937.
- ISBN:
- 1590170369
- OCLC:
- 52165854
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