The opening passage-rats, head, corpse, and all-comes, unsurprisingly in its effect, though surprisingly in its existence, from Louis-Ferdinand Céline, whose newly discovered novel, “Guerre” or “War,” has just been published, in France, by Gallimard.
A more intense realization of the horrors of the Great War has never been written, and the passage makes other famous descriptions of the trenches seem arty and unrealized: Hemingway in “A Farewell to Arms,” self-consciously poetic Remarque in “All Quiet on the Western Front,” quietly polemical.
The soldier, who seems to have internalized, permanently, the noise of the cannons, wanders through a field of death in desperate search of friendly troops. OL1287903W Page_number_confidence 95.80 Pages 454 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211105000955 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 401 Scandate 20211030180431 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 4.In the first pages of the book, we lie alongside corpses, while a soldier-who will prove to be the consciousness of the narrative-his ear stuck by blood to the soil and his head shaken by the sounds of explosions, wonders if his wounded arm is even still attached to his broken body nearby, two rats rustle through the rucksack of another corpse in search of food. Urn:lcp:journeytoendofni0000unse:lcpdf:3847ff33-70e4-47a6-9bc6-b4a958cbb6ee Foldoutcount 0 Identifier journeytoendofni0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2c952c9v Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.20 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000489 Openlibrary_edition (John Hugo Puempin), 1908- Autocrop_version 0.0.4_books-20210916-0.1 Boxid IA40278224 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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