Fear : A Novel of World War I by Gabriel Chevallier (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Fear : A Novel of World War I by Gabriel Chevallier (2014, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101590177169

ISBN-139781590177167

eBay Product ID (ePID)170284694

Product Key Features

Book TitleFear : a Novel of World War I

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWar & Military, Historical

Publication Year2014

GenreFiction

AuthorGabriel Chevallier

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight11.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2013-049762

Reviews"Chevallier's book...represents that rarest of war narratives--one that is indispensable, nearly unprecedented, and painfully relevant....What makes Chevallier's book a masterpiece is the lucidity of the author's eyewitness account; its prose moves from practical concerns like picking lice to poetic reverie in the space of a paragraph, capturing the chaos of war and th e stillness of the battlefield, revealing a terrible beauty." -- Publishers Weekly starred review "A chronological burst of battle stories and vindictive reflections on the paradox of war, Fear is structurally similar to Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel, while readers of Céline (a contemporary of Chevallier's) will catch whiffs of the sardonic misanthropy that runs through Journey to the End of Night. Dartemont [or could say "Fear's protagonist"] deconstructs the notions of duty and heroism and draws their origins in fear and ignorance while letting us rifle through his blood-stained sketchbook with images from a war that grws ever more distant in our memories." -- Booklist "Its first-person narration by a young soldier who, like the author, was wounded in battle, hospitalized, returned to the front and remained an infantryman until the armistice reads like a cross between the darkest humor and the bleakest reportage....the themes of what [Chevallier] calls "this anti-war book" are timeless: the folly of nationalism, the foolish pomposity of military leaders, the arbitrariness of death, the madness of war." -- Kirkus Reviews "Reading Fear feels like being led through the damnation panel of Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights , the front line 'blazing like some infernal factory where monstrous crucibles melted human flesh into a bloody lava.' Fear remains a bravura work, fearless from start to finish, pitiless in its targets, passionate in its empathy." --Neil Fitzgerald, TLS "Gabriel Chevallier's autobiographical novel about serving in the bombed-out trenches of World War I still chills the blood. In indelible passages it describes the sensory degradation of war on the human body. Translated into English by Malcolm Imrie without a hint of stiltedness, Chevallier's long-neglected novel is one of the most effective indictments of war ever written." --Tobias Grey, The Wall Street Journal "If Fear has an English equivalent it is The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning or, in German, Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger, each of which give a view of the war from the perspective of lowly infantrymen, and both of whom, like Chevallier, remain stoutly immune to the old lie that dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ." -- The Sunday Telegraph "Gabriel Chevallier, best known for his magnificent novel Clochemerle , has used his experiences during World War I to produce a work of great intensity, comparable to such great literary masterpieces of the period as Henri Barbusse's Under Fire ." -- The Daily Mail "The most beautiful book ever written on the tragic events that blood-stained Europe for nearly five years." -- Le Libertaire, "Eighty years after it was first published in its original French, Gabriel Chevallier's autobiographical novel about serving in the bombed-out trenches of World War I still chills the blood.... Fear is a novel whose most indelible passages describe the sensory degradation of war on the human body. These baroque descriptions are generously translated into English by Malcolm Imrie without a hint of stiltedness.... It is the kind of powerful prose that helps to make Chevallier's long-neglected novel one of the most effective indictments of war ever written." -Tobias Grey, The Wall Street Journal "If Fear has an English equivalent it is The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning or, in German, Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger, each of which give a view of the war from the perspective of lowly infantrymen, and both of whom, like Chevallier, remain stoutly immune to the old lie that dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ." - The Sunday Telegraph "Gabriel Chevallier, best known for his magnificent novel Clochemerle , has used his experiences during World War I to produce a work of great intensity, comparable to such great literary masterpieces of the period as Henri Barbusse's Under Fire ." - The Daily Mail "At times, reading Fear feels like being led through the damnation panel of Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights , the front line 'blazing like some infernal factory where monstrous crucibles melted human flesh into a bloody lava.' ...Chevallier's turn of phrase, brilliantly rendered in Malcolm Imrie's translation, makes this distant war feel horrifying and close.... Fear remains a bravura work, fearless from start to finish, pitiless in its targets, passionate in its empathy." -Neil Fitzgerald, The Times Literary Supplement "All the horrors of war are here, but atrocity alone would not be enough to explain the grandeur of this text. It is the healthy defiance and controlled anger which earned the book its stripes." - Le Figaro "The most beautiful book ever written on the tragic events that blood-stained Europe for nearly five years." - Le Libertaire

SynopsisA NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation A young soldier learns the true meaning of fear amidst the carnage of World War I in this literary masterpiece and "one of the most effective indictments of war ever written" ( Wall Street Journal ) 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., An NYRB Classics Original Winner 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.

LC Classification NumberPQ2605.H67P413 2014