The art of survival : France and the Great War picaresque / Libby Murphy.

By:

Murphy, Libby

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

030021751X
9780300217513

Subject(s):

World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Literature and the war

DDC classification:

840.9/0091 23

LOC classification:

PQ307.W3 M87 2016

Contents:

A literary war : irony, tragedy, and the return of the picaresque -- Tactics of the foot soldier : the arts and antics of Le SysteÌme D -- Georges de la FouchardieÌre : oppositional journalism, involuntary heroism, and Bourrage de craÌne -- The comedy of independence : the "man on the street" goes off to war -- Animal instincts : lessons from a trench rat -- Phlegm meets flair : images of the infantryman in wartime Britain and France -- Le Cafard : brutalization, alienation, and despair -- Charlie Chaplin's little tramp : from the art of survival to the survival of art.

Summary: The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the trenches of the Western Front. In fact, Libby Murphy reveals, French soldiers drew upon a long-standing European tradition to imagine themselves not as heroes or victims but as survivors. Murphy investigates how infantrymen and civilians attempted to make sense of the war while it was still in progress by reviving the picaresque, a literary mode in which unheroic protagonists are forced to fend for themselves in a chaotic and hostile world. By examining works by French and European novelists, journalists, graphic artists, cultural critics, and filmmaker---including Charlie Chaplin---Libby Murphy shows how the rich tradition of the European picaresque was uniquely appropriate for expressing anxieties provoked by modern, industrialized warfare.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index.

The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the trenches of the Western Front. In fact, Libby Murphy reveals, French soldiers drew upon a long-standing European tradition to imagine themselves not as heroes or victims but as survivors. Murphy investigates how infantrymen and civilians attempted to make sense of the war while it was still in progress by reviving the picaresque, a literary mode in which unheroic protagonists are forced to fend for themselves in a chaotic and hostile world. By examining works by French and European novelists, journalists, graphic artists, cultural critics, and filmmaker---including Charlie Chaplin---Libby Murphy shows how the rich tradition of the European picaresque was uniquely appropriate for expressing anxieties provoked by modern, industrialized warfare.