
Private Clavel's War on War
Leon Werth(Author)
Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Published on 15. April 2019
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-1-78623-491-9 (ISBN)
Description
Leon Werth served in the French army from August 1914 to August 1915. Aged 36, he consented to be in the war, but, paradoxically, he is resolutely against the war, against all wars. Clavel is Werth's mouthpiece, reflecting Werth's political views and standpoint. This modernist novel is not structured in a traditional manner. Instead of the conventional development of character and plot, the book consists of character sketches, snatches of conversations, random impressions, polemical arguments, various texts (letters, official communiques, newspaper reports) and, by use of interior monologue, penetrating meditations on the meaning of the war, thus creating a kaleidoscopic mosaic of his war experiences. This striking anti-war novel occupies a unique place in the literature of the Great War.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Claygate
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
542 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78623-491-9 (9781786234919)
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