![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Realistic and, at the same time, poetic accounts of war ever written, Story of a Squad) was his depiction of the horrendous carnage andĪ moving portrait of the men who suffered it together. Le feu (1916, translated as Under Fire, the It became one of France's most widely novels and is credited as introducing a new level of realism in literature, to be developed up by such writers as James Joyce. Marriage, adultery, birth, death, lesbianism and all other human behaviours. ![]() Spies on his neighbours through a hole in his bedroom wall, witnessing In the intensely realistic story, a young man in a Paris boardinghouse Sparked a scandal as an account of voyeurism when it was released inĮnglish. His novel L'enfer (1908, translated as Inferno or Hell) however That city, producing mainly poetry and journalism at first. THE AUTHOR | THE WORKS To hell and onwardįor someone who wrote one of the greatest novels to come out of the First World War and is often credited as the writer who turned French literature around in the twentieth century, Henri Barbusse is surprisingly little known in much of the world today.Ĭould this be because of his communist politics or because he lived out his late years in the Soviet Union?īarbusse was born outside Paris and joined the artistic circles of ![]()
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