Wooden Crosses
第一次世界大戦の塹壕を舞台に、若い兵士ギルベール・デマシーと仲間たちの日々を通して、戦争の現実と人間の脆さを描く反戦小説。
作品情報
塹壕の泥、砲声、冗談、喪失を積み重ねて、戦争の輪郭を静かにえぐり出す。
ローラン・ドルジュレスの代表作。若い兵士たちが前線で過ごす時間を、泥、飢え、砲撃、仲間の死といった細部の積み重ねで描き、戦争を英雄譚ではなく、疲弊と喪失の現実として見せる。作品の強さは、強い感情に頼りすぎず、観察の積み重ねで反戦の重みを伝えるところにある。
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塹壕生活の細部まで掬い取る写実性と、兵士たちの疲弊や連帯を見つめる視線が評価されている。反戦の証言としての強さが際立つ一方、反復の多さを気にする読者もいる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Aegypan
- 発売日
- 2005-10-30
- ページ数
- 224ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 1.3 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781598186727
- ISBN-10
- 1598186728
- 価格
- 3662 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
With a great pile of packets in front of him like a peddler's pack, the harassed quartermaster was calling out the post in the middle of a regular mob of soldiers, who were all plying their elbows and trampling on one another's feet. It was just at our door, between the communal washhouse -- so tiny that there would hardly have been room for three washerwomen under its sloping shelter roof -- and the notary's house, which wore a red scarf of virginia creeper crosswise on its front. We had clambered up on the stone seat and were listening attentively. "Maurice Duclou, first section." "Killed at Courcy," cried somebody. "Are you sure?" "Yes, his mates saw him fall in front of the church. . . . He'd caught a bullet. Now, . . well, I wasn't there myself." On the corner of the envelope the quartermaster wrote in pencil, "Killed." "Edouard Marquette." "He must be killed too," said a voice.
Roland Dorgelès (1885 - 1973) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt. Born in Amiens, Somme, under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris. A prolific author, he is most renowned for the Prix Femina-winning Wooden crosses ("Les croix de bois"), a moving study of World War I, in which he served. It was published in 1919 (in English by William Heinemann in 1920). Dorgelès served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers and musicians.
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My husband raves about this book. One of the best he has ever read he claims and he has read them all - or close to it.
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Until now my favorite film on the subject of WW1 has been All Quiet on the Western Front which is, of course, from the German perspective. The film of this experience from the French side is, therefore, a direct comparison but the suffering and horror they both portray is identical. Anyone wishing to experience the fears, hopes and comradeship of those dreadful times should also always read the books.
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It is an anti war interesting book.
関連する文学賞
- Prix Femina（プリ・フェミナ） 第16回（1919年） ・Winner