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Under Fire (Barbusse novel)
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| Author | Henri Barbusse |
|---|---|
| Original title | Le Feu: journal d'une escouade |
| Translator | Robin Buss (2003) |
| Language | French |
| Genre | War Novel |
| Publisher | Ernest Flammarion |
Publication date | December 1916 |
| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 304 pp |
| ISBN | 1-4264-1576-1 |
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (French: Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) by Henri Barbusse (December 1916), was one of the first novels about World War I to be published. Although it is fiction, the novel was based on Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front. It was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1916. The novel is described as one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation movement[1] or as the work which started it;[2] the novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway[3] and Erich Maria Remarque.[4]
Barbusse wrote Le feu while he was a serving soldier. He claimed to have taken notes for the novel while still in the trenches; after being injured and reassigned from the front, he wrote and published the novel while working at the War Office in 1916.[5]
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- ^ Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience. University Press of Kansas. 20 January 2017. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-7006-2444-7.
- ^ War in Ernest Hemingway's a Farewell to Arms. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. 14 March 2014. ISBN 978-0-7377-7069-8.
- ^ Tate, Trudi (2009). "The First World War: British Writing". In McLoughlin, Catherine Mary (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to War Writing. Cambridge University Press. pp. 160–174. ISBN 978-0-521-89568-2.
- ^ Barbusse, Henri (2003) [1916]. Under Fire. Penguin Classics (in French). Winter, Jay (introduction). New York: Penguin Books.
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