Clochemerle

Literature & Fiction

Gabriel Chevallier

Contemporary

Vintage

The Scandals of Clochemerle

Simon&Schuster

<p>This is a rediscovered, controversial classic of war literature. First published in 1930, "Fear" graphically describes the terrible experiences of soldiers during World War I. It tells the story of Jean Dartemont, a young man called up in 1915. He is not a rebel, but neither is he awed by hierarchical authority. After an exceedingly short training period, he refuses to follow his platoon and is sent to Artois in the trenches. With absolute realism, Gabriel Chevallier depicts what he experienced every day, for months: violence, blood, death, bodies...One day, he is wounded, evacuated and hospitalised. The nurses consider it their duty to stimulate the soldiers' fighting spirit, and so ask Jean what he did at the front. He replies: 'I was afraid'.</p>

Fear (English and French Edition)

Non Basic Stock Line

[Translated by Malcolm Imrie] [Read by Clive Chafer] 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. In 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.  

Fear

Serpent's Tail

Clochemerle - bk1636

Fischer Verlag

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