Georges Duhamel

This correspondence reveals the attitude of two men faced with the crisis of civilisation brought about by World War I and the development of Communism in the years that followed. It underlines the different conception they both had of humanism.

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This correspondence reveals the attitude of two men faced with the crisis of civilisation brought about by World War I and the development of Communism in the years that followed. It underlines the different conception they both had of humanism.

Civilisation: 1914-1917 (1918) est un livre de l'�����crivain fran�����ais Georges Duhamel. Ce livre est une �����uvre de fiction qui raconte l'histoire d'un groupe de soldats fran�����ais pendant la Premi�����re Guerre mondiale de 1914 ������ 1917. L'auteur d�����crit la vie quotidienne des soldats sur le front, leurs souffrances, leurs espoirs, leurs peurs et leurs r������ves. Il d�����crit �����galement la destruction et la d�����solation caus�����es par la guerre. Le livre est �����crit dans un style r�����aliste et �����mouvant, et il est consid�����r����� comme l'un des meilleurs livres sur la Premi�����re Guerre mondiale. Il est �����galement consid�����r����� comme une critique de la guerre et de ses cons�����quences sur l'humanit�����. Civilisation: 1914-1917 (1918) est un livre important pour comprendre l'histoire de la Premi�����re Guerre mondiale et ses cons�����quences sur la soci�����t����� et la culture fran�����aises. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1918 Edition. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

The New Book of the Martyrs is a result of Georges Duhamel's life changing experience as a doctor in World War I. His stories of Carre and Lerondeau, Verdun, The Death of Mercier and others are thought provoking and emotional. "Someone who had been visiting the wounded said to me: "The beds are really very white, the dressings are clean, all the patients seem to be playing cards, reading the papers, eating dainties; they are simple, often very gentle, they don't look very unhappy. They all tell the same story... The war has not changed them much. One can recognize them all." "Are you sure that you recognize them? You have just been looking at them, are you sure that you have seen them? "Under their bandages are wounds you cannot imagine. Below the wounds, in the depths of the mutilated flesh, a soul, strange and furtive, is stirring in feverish exaltation, a soul which does not readily reveal itself, which expresses itself artlessly, but which I would fain make you understand." Georges Duhamel was a French author. Between 1906 and 1909 he founded l'Abbaye de Cr teil with Charles Vildrac. The group brought together poets, writers, musicians and painters. From 1912, he became an editor of the literary review Mercure de France. He trained as a doctor, and during World War I worked as an army surgeon for four years. In 1935, he was elected to the 30th chair at the Acad mie Fran aise. During World War II Duhamel's work was banned by the Germans. After the war, Duhamel was named president of the Alliance Fran aise and returned to his public speaking.

This title includes a French field surgeon's autobiographical tales of the Western Front. ""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 Academie Francaise. 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.

Ses admirateurs et ses amis retrouveront ici Francois Mauriac. Grace au succes continu de plusieurs de ses oeuvres et a la reedition de son Bloc-notes, il est souvent evoque et cite. Georges Duhamel, lui, traverse une injuste periode de relatif oubli. Si la plupart des actions et des reactions de mon pere m'etaient familieres, ces lettres m'ont decouvert un Georges Duhamel dont j'avais oublie qu'il etait a ce point admirable. Les Salavin avaient ete pour moi, au seuil de l'adolescence, une revelation. Cet homme, aux talents et aux dons si multiples, m'impressionnait. Admiration que confirma son approche lorsque la discrete et lumineuse Blanche Albane et lui furent devenus, a la suite d'un coup de foudre mutuel, des amis de mes parents. Nos deux familles se lierent alors, et nous vecumes, rue de Liege et a Valmondois, des heures merveilleuses. Bernard, Jean, Antoine et leurs cousins Gerard et le petit Zino... On imagine mal le rayonnement de cette jeunesse qui nous emerveillait, mes soeurs, mon jeune frere et moi. La musique, qu'ils maitrisaient, ajoutait a leur mystere et a nos complexes. Georges Duhamel jouait de la flute. Il mettait de surcroit sa vie en musique. Officiant avec un melange de serieux et d'humour. Decoupant le gigot et celebrant les vins qu'il servait lui-meme en faisant le tour de la table. Et l'on ne savait qui l'emportait, alors, de l'oenologie ou de la poesie. Je le connus de plus pres sous l'Occupation ou il lui arriva de me reconforter aux heures de doute. Sa generosite, son devouement, sa delicatesse, cette facon qu'il avait de s'occuper d'autrui eclatent dans ces lettres ou se repondent deux grandes voix. Entre Duhamel et Mauriac, quelle qualite d'ame et de coeur Hommes de lettres, l'un et l'autre, mais a la surface d'eux-memes. Que le docteur J.-J. Hueber soit remercie de nous avoir offert ce bonheur. Claude Mauriac