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Man ifestos

Man ifestos. Who’s ready to rumble?. Henri Barbusse. 1873-1935. French novelist several novels, including L’enfer (1908), Le couteau entre mes dents (1921), and a biography of Stalin (1936) English mother, French father small-town upbringing, to Paris age 16, then to war

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Man ifestos

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  1. Manifestos Who’s ready to rumble?

  2. Henri Barbusse 1873-1935

  3. French novelist • several novels, including L’enfer(1908), Le couteau entre mes dents (1921), and a biography of Stalin (1936) • English mother, French father • small-town upbringing, to Paris age 16, then to war • increasingly disenchanted, then pacifist • then Communist for remainder of his life • fights for 17 months in the war 1914-15 • invalided out of service for asthma, dysentery, wounds • writes Le Feu at his desk job 1916 Barbusse

  4. published in Dec. 1916 • wins Prix Goncourt • trans. into English and published June 1917 • naturalism • realism • journal – documentary reportage • what claims does this make? what promises? Le Feu (Under Fire)

  5. opens with a broad vision • closes with a broad vision • anecdotes, episodes • what does this do to the events, our experience of them? • first-hand narrative • again, what contracts, promises, etc. does this make? • p. 155 – swearwords • issue of translation, language, truth, objectivity • anything else? Structure

  6. Let’s begin with the title: Le feu– what does that mean? • pp. 6-7 • “après moi, le déluge” (Louis XV or Madame de Pompadour) • fire, smoke, flood, fire, water, ooze, apocalypse Paradigm Shift

  7. The Bible

  8. The Bible

  9. The Bible

  10. The Bible

  11. Second half Le Feu • so you will want to have read it Thursday

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