View original postAfter all, there are probably thousands of middling poets who express regret and helplessness.
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View original postAlso, Infanterie Greift An by Erwin Rommel is a fantastic memoir that I reviewed here on the site a bit earlier.
Haven't read this or the Jünger you mention.
View original postI would assume Der Weg Zurück would also count, or even Drei Kameraden if you take a long view of the war. Of course, by that standard you could take Hesse's Der Steppenwolf or Mann's Der Zauberberg or Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz or even Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften.
Didn't directly state it on my blog, but I have read the first two books you mention (and those certainly will be reviewed at some point). Good point about the others tying in to the war in some fashion or another.
View original postZweig's Die Welt von Gestern is a great framing work.
Indeed. And the novel about the sergeant whose exact title I'm forgetting at the moment.
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View original postOf course, I would expect that just opening the Fussell book will give you a long list of English-language sources (Fussell was terrible about German sources - could he even read German?). Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms covers the Italian Front pretty well.
Agreed on both counts.
View original postLawrence's The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is probably also a must-read.
And so I shall in the near future.
View original postRussian:
View original postThere really aren't a lot of good Russian works on World War I, because the Revolution and Civil War that followed get so much more press. There are parts of some books written by authors who lived through the period which discusses the "war before the Revolution" somewhat, like Pasternak's Доктор Живаго and Sholokhov's Тихий Дон, and a few poets seem to have written some words about the war, like Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Alexander Blok and Sergey Esenin, but there is hardly any direct assessment made, and most works about the period are completely devoid of information about what happened before 1917.
I was afraid of that, although if I also go on to do a WWII side-project, I could include of the Eisenstein films that reference the Germans in interesting ways.
View original postFrench:
View original postI actually don't know of anything about French war literature.
There's some listed in the comments on my blog. Also hoping for some Italian sources as well. Got a promising Romanian suggestion there also.
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Need some help with this World War I reading/reviewing project I'm planning for the summer
- 13/01/2014 03:20:14 AM
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Ernst Jünger, In Stahlgewittern. Very pro-war, became popular with the Nazis.
- 13/01/2014 02:27:46 PM
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Good selections
- 14/01/2014 09:29:28 AM
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Hmmmm. That's difficult.
- 13/01/2014 10:14:48 PM
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Ha! Yes, I have too many books.
- 14/01/2014 03:44:59 AM
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Well, I'm not planning on reading a lot of general histories when I have specialist studies on hand
- 14/01/2014 09:35:03 AM
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Literature, from the point of view of the Triple Alliance authors.
- 14/01/2014 01:55:07 PM
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