21 июня 2024 года
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Paul Bourget: That dreadful word War ==== Paul BourgetThe Weight of the NameTranslated by George Burnham Ives At an incident of his military life so public, so certain to make a noise in the world, as obedience to an order […]
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Georges Ohnet: Selections on war Georges Ohnet: Better to erect statues to those who preserve than those who take life Georges Ohnet: God forbid Georges Ohnet: Pillaging in the wake of victorious armies Georges Ohnet: The thunderbolt of war Georges Ohnet: […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Georges OhnetThe Woman of MysteryTranslated by Fred Rothwell “I have seen hundreds of men killed on the field of battle, and thousands of wounded carried off in ambulances. At Gravelotte, I saw the head of the captain of my […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Ernest Feydeau: First time I found myself with my feet in the blood of a battlefield ==== Ernest FeydeauThe Secret of Happiness …of all creatures on earth man is the most cruel, for he alone sheds blood, not for food, […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Ernest FeydeauThe Secret of Happiness He was one of those men sprung from the people, whom the chances of the conscription have condemned to devote their whole life to a soldier’s toilsome and obscure calling. After twenty years of […]
==== 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 […]
