Henri Barbusse

Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has inflicted on itself. For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, lightened only by the arrival of their rations or a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in the hospital. Reminiscent of classics like Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Under Fire (originally published in French as La Feu) vividly evokes life in the trenches: the mud, stench, and monotony of waiting while constantly fearing for one's life in an infernal and seemingly eternal battlefield. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Under Fire

Written in 1906, this is a study of voyeurism,written to the highest of standards. A young man,staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in,the wall above his bed. Through this, he,obsessively studies the private moments and secret,activities of his neighbours. Marriage, adulteryhomosexuality, religion, and death are all seen in,a Dantesque manner through this little spy-hole.,First published in 1921, HELL shocked many but,also obtained critical acclaim in the key papers,of the day.

Hell

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The Inferno

Les années 1915 et 1916 ont été, pour Henri Barbusse, décisives.C’est en 1915 qu’il a vécu Le Feu dans les tranchées du Soissonnais, de l’Argonne et de l’Artois, comme soldat d’escouade, puis comme brancardier au 231e régiment d’infanterie où il s’était engagé. C’est en 1916, au cours de son évacuation dans les hôpitaux, qu’il a écrit son livre. Celui-ci, publié par les Éditions Flammarion à la fin de novembre, remporta aussitôt après le prix Goncourt. Considéré dans le monde entier comme un des chefs-d’œuvre de la littérature de guerre, c’est un des témoignagesles plus vrais et les plus pathétiques des combattants de première ligne.Le Feu est suivi du Carnet de guerre qui permet de remonter aux sources mêmes de la création du roman épique d’Henri Barbusse.

journal d'une escouade : roman ; suivi du Carnet de guerre

Le feu

Stefan Zweig

der Roman einer Vorkriegsjugend

Die Schutzflehenden

L'étrangère

Cehennem

Later novel by the French novelist, journalist and communist and author of Under Fire (Le Feu), which was based on his experiences during World War I and won the Prix Goncourt.

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L'enfer

Нежность

Un jeune homme qui vient de trouver un à la banque Berton à Paris, s'installe dans un hotel en pension.Alors qu'il se retrouve seul dans sa chambre, il s'aperçoit que dans le mur mitoyen de la chambre voisine, à hauteur du plafond, une petite ouverture "l'autorise" à jouer les voyeurs.Le roman, c'est la suite de onze tableaux racontant les tranches de vie de la chambre d'hôtel que ce jeune homme va "voler" à ces hommes et femmes dans leur intimité personnelle et relationnelle, physique, sentimentale et morale.Séduction physique, mais aussi plaisir charnel "à l'état pur", vulgarité machiste, et toujours en toile de fond, pessimisme des relations affectives, Barbusse oppose l'espoir d'une pureté sentimentale éthérée et réalité plus noire de la condition humaine.Ce roman est décrit par les spécialistes comme appartenant à la catégorie des romans naturalistes mais aussi annonciateur du roman existentialiste.C'est un roman un peu torturé mais très concret, bien dans la réalité des sentiments de l'Homme.Sans être une peinture sociale, les vies rencontrées sont ancrées dans leur condition sociale; l'argent compte; on en veut même si ça corrompt les relations et leur authenticité.Barbusse reste marqué par cette opposition chrétienne du corps et de l'âme, même si les spécialistes de l'âme, les prêtres sont critiqués pour leur dogmatisme et leur souci de soumettre les Humains à l'ordre divin tel qu'il est enseigné dans l'Eglise.Voici deux extraits issus de deux tableaux.Dans ce tableau, il surprend une jeune femme qui se déshabille dans la chambre d'à côté; dans l'extrait suivant, un prêtre s'impose dans la chambre occupée par un vieillard mourant pour lui faire confesser ses péchés.La deuxième apparition féminine va le mettre dans un état "d'ébullition" indscriptible...

L' Enfer

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William Fitzwater Wray

The Inferno: large print by Henri Barbusse In introducing M. Barbusse's most important book to a public already familiar with "Under Fire," it seems well to point out the relation of the author's philosophy to his own time, and the kinship of his art to that of certain other contemporary French and English novelists. "L'Enfer" has been more widely read and discussed in France than any other realistic study since the days of Zola. The French sales of the volume, in 1917 alone, exceeded a hundred thousand copies, a popularity all the more remarkable from the fact that its appeal is based as much on its philosophical substance as on the story which it tells. Although M. Barbusse is one of the most distinguished contemporary French writers of short stories, he has found in the novel form the most fitting literary medium for the expression of his philosophy, and it is to realism rather than romanticism that he turns for the exposition of his special imaginative point of view. And yet this statement seems to need some qualification. In his introduction to "Pointed Roofs," by Dorothy Richardson, Mr. J.D. Beresford points out that a new objective literary method is becoming general in which the writer's strict detachment from his objective subject matter is united to a tendency, impersonal, to be sure, to immerse himself in the life surrounding his characters. Miss May Sinclair points out that writers are beginning to take the complete plunge for the first time, and instances as examples, not only the novels of Dorothy Richardson, but those of James Joyce. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In introducing M. Barbusse's most important book to a public already familiar with "Under Fire," it seems well to point out the relation of the author's philosophy to his own time, and the kinship of his art to that of certain other contemporary French and English novelists. "L'Enfer" has been more widely read and discussed in France than any other realistic study since the days of Zola. The French sales of the volume, in 1917 alone, exceeded a hundred thousand copies, a popularity all the more remarkable from the fact that its appeal is based as much on its philosophical substance as on the story which it tells.

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„Mit schmerzhafter Eindringlichkeit beschreibt Barbusse seine Erlebnisse des ersten Weltkriegs. Schanzenarbeit, stundenlange Irrmärsche durch die Dunkelheit und allgegenwärtiger Tod – Barbusse nimmt dem Krieg jegliche fehlgeleitete Romantik, die doch so viele junge Männer seiner Zeit mit naiver Begeisterung in den Krieg ziehen ließ.“ Redaktion Gröls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)

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