10 июня 2024 года
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Edgar Saltus: Soldiers and no farmers; imperial sterility…and demise ==== Edgar SaltusThe Philosophy of Disenchantment Even in its most pleasant season, Berlin is not a pleasant city; a lounge of but half an hour on the Unter den Linden […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Georges Ohnet: Better to erect statues to those who preserve than those who take life Georges Ohnet: Pillaging in the wake of victorious armies Georges Ohnet: The thunderbolt of war ==== Georges OhnetIn Deep AbyssTranslated by Fred Rothwell “You are […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Boris Vian: It’s our job to make war, not to choose the enemy ==== Boris VianThe Generals’ Tea PartyTranslated by Simon Watson Taylor PLANTIN: …what is the ideal consumer? AUDUBON (thinks, then his face lights up as he exclaims): The […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Roger VaillandLa FêteTranslated by Peter Wiles …during the First World War and from his classroom at the elementary school in the Rue des Feuillantines, in Paris, they could hear the rumble of artillery on the Somme front. Men’s flesh […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Boris VianThe Generals’ Tea PartyTranslated by Simon Watson Taylor AUDUBON: …Listen, old boy, we’ve forgotten something….This war of yours: whom are we supposed to be fighting?…I am not asking ridiculous questions. I’m asking you a most vital question….We should […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Alphonse KarrA Tour Round My Garden We worship glory, particularly military glory, which consists in killing without hating, without a motive, the greatest possible number of men born under another sky, and that under such singular conditions, that if […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Gustave AimardThe Frontiersmen “O! it is horrible to think that this home I love so much should be the scene of such a conflict.” “…I can sympathize with your sorrow, Miss Barton. God has made this country too beautiful […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Frédéric SouliéLa Comtesse de MonrionTranslated by John Taylor Sinnett and Kate Hibburd …she told him that he was one of those men to whom the whole world should do homage, and his genius had a right to dispense with […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Jules Michelet: My book is a book of peace ==== Jules MicheletPriest, Woman and Family This vile war, the most loathsome in history, appears the more horrible by the almost total absence of free inspiration and spontaneous impulse. It was, from […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Henry Céard: He affected warlike sentiments ==== Henry CéardUne belle journéeTranslated by Ernest Boyd In the illustrated papers she saw the latest coronation, the dirty linen washed in the latest lawsuit, all the events of Paris and the world….Pictures which […]
