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Civilization 1914 1917
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Author : Georges Duhamel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009
Civilization 1914 1917 written by Georges Duhamel and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Civilization, 1914-1917 is a largely autobiographical narrative of the Great War written by a remarkable observer--a French physician, poet, and novelist who treated the wounded and performed some two thousand operations in mobile hospital units during the war. First published in 1918 and translated into English the following year, the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt and a special award of the Académie Française. Out of print for ninety years, Georges Duhamel's account is available once more in this Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series edition featuring a new introduction by Catharine Savage Brosman, which offers a biographical sketch of Duhamel and places his work within the context of French narratives of World War I. Duhamel's book comprises sixteen vignettes in which character rather than plot remains the constant focus. Each tale is presented in the first person but with varying narrators. The settings are often field medical units just miles away from the bombardments. Here the stench of blood, plight of the wounded, and efforts of well-intentioned doctors bring to the fore the realities of war as Duhamel knew them to be. Pathos, anger, and frustration are more plentiful than any sense of glory, duty, or honor in these circumstances. In lieu of the political and nationalistic considerations of war that dominate the writings of some of his contemporaries, Duhamel's narratives offer instead the historical and literary merits of his keen attention to details--particularly concerning combat medicine--and his rich development of the varied tones, characters, and locations of his sketches. Throughout the book Duhamel pits those characters and efforts meant to preserve and mend humanity against an overarching machine age and its armored acolytes intent on human destruction. The resulting collection works to bear authoritative witness to the war on the Western Front and to extract from the author's experiences some measure of poetic truth about the nature of civilization in our modern age.
Civilization 1914 1917
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Author : GEORGES. DUHAMEL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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Civilization 1914 1917
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Author : Georges Duhamel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
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Civilization 1914 1917 Classic Reprint
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Author : Georges Duhamel
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-09-17
Civilization 1914 1917 Classic Reprint written by Georges Duhamel and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-17 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt from Civilization 1914-1917 I was coming back from a furlough. I was feeling ill and had Stretched myself out on a bench. In front of me three officers were talking. Their voices were those of young men; their mili tary experience was that of veterans. They were on their way to rejoin their regiment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Civilisation 1914 1917
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Author : Georges Duhamel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918
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Author : Georges Duhamel
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-20
Civilization 1914 1917 written by Georges Duhamel and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Civilisation
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Author : Georges Duhamel
language : fr
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-11
Civilisation written by Georges Duhamel and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-11 with categories.
Excerpt from Civilisation: 1914-1917 Mais j'ai toujours de la veine je n'ai été blessé qu'une fois. Ces deux phrases retentissaient encore à mes oreilles quand celui qui les avait prononcées fit flam ber une allumette et se mit à fumer. La lueur éclaira furtivement un charmant visage. L'homme apparte nait à un corps réputé. Les insignes des suprèmes récompenses que l'on peut accorder aux jeunes offi ciers luisaient sur sa vareuse d'ocre. Toute sa per sonne respirait un courage tranquille et raisonneur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Civilisation
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Author : Georges Duhamel
language : fr
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Civilisation written by Georges Duhamel and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with categories.
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A War Diary In Paris 1914 1917
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Author : John Gardner Coolidge
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2018-03-03
A War Diary In Paris 1914 1917 written by John Gardner Coolidge and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-03 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Civilization
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Author : Georges Duhamel
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-12-16
Civilization written by Georges Duhamel and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-16 with categories.
Civilization, 1914-1917-this title on the back of the 1918 Goncourt Prize volume seems a mockery. But the author is Georges Duhamel, poet, essayist, and enlightened man of letters: the book is a fruit of his four years' service as a surgeon with the French army. You will not be sorry if you read it.First there was Under Fire, then Men in War, and now Civilization-a great trilogy of accusations of war as a violation of humanity. Dunhamel in war reminds me forcibly of the littérateur, Olivier Jeannin, in Jean-Christophe. If Rolland had sent the latter to battle, he would have recorded the same reactions Duhamel has, I believe. Such compounds of disillusionment, irony, and a patient, pitying weariness with a brutal world, all lightened by a distinguished humanism, are not so easily deceived by patriotic and idealistic cant as the Coningsby Dawsons. They have the sharp sight to see through all the pleasant veils wrapped about the hideous spectacle. And so Duhamel faithfully snapshots bits of that insane civilization of l9l4 to l917-Ponceau, with a wound in his thigh, "a hideous wound, large enough to hold a soldier's képi-a great greenish wound, with the bone broken at the bottom," Cousin with the splintered leg and the blood percolating through the dressings like a scarlet dew, and the bundle of dripping remains which Duhamel himself lugs about to find a resting place for. He has witnessed the work of conscription boards, "the flesh-mongers," and he has summed it up. "Sacred human flesh-holy substance that serves thought, art, love, all that is great in life-you are nothing but a vile, malodorous paste that one takes in one's hands with disgust, to judge whether or not it is fit for killing!" Enough. This is not a book for those who cannot stomach terrible details. The indictment contained in the last chapter (I would wager it was this chapter which won the Goncourt Prize) is directed against the age of machines and science. Certain painters-for example, Nevinson-have tried to show the overwhelming power and influence of machines on our lives. Duhamel would agree with them. And he recoils violently from such an age. "I hate the twentieth century as I hate rotten Europe and the whole world on which this wretched Europe is spread out like a great spot of axle-grease," he cries out. At the front he sees the vast destruction wrought by machines and in the hospitals he notes civilization's answer to itself-an answer delivered by microscopes, knives, and autoclaves. But now and then Duhamel sees going about his 'work a tenderly smiling surgeon who is something over and above all this, who is not deceived by the intricate accomplishments of science And so after all, he can write. "Civilization! the true Civilization-I often think of it. It is like a choir of harmonious voices chanting a hymn in my heart, it is a marble statue on a barren hill, it is a man saying, "Love one another!' and 'Return good for evil!' And if it is not in the heart of man, well, it's nowhere." Since the publication of Civilization, he has written La Possession du Monde a series of essays developing his indictment of a scientific and industrial régime and calling for a new living of "la vie intérieure"' and "le régne du coeur." For him, perhaps, the experiences of war have been the birth pains of a stronger, wider vision. -The Modernist: A Monthly Magazine of Modern Arts and Letters, Volume 1, Issue 1 [1919]