This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing
texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the
atrocious horrors of war. Rejecting the assumption that violence is
simply a denial of reason or, at best, a pathological form of
collective sadism, this book considers it 'a cultural act' that
needs to be understood as underpinned by a series of shared and
accepted norms and values stemming from a society at a given moment
of its history and shaped by its language. Traditional vocabulary
and language seem inadequate to describe soldiers' experience of
modern warfare. The problem for writers is to depict and render
intelligible a dramatically unprecedented reality through recourse
to something familiar. For some historians and literary critics,
the absurdity of the First World War has shaped our ironic and
disenchanted reading of the entire twentieth century. Yet these
ways of coping with the urge to communicate inexpressible feelings
and emotions in most cases are not sufficient to overcome the
incoherence of the sentiments felt and the events witnessed. The
contributors attempt to address the questions and issues that are
posed by the highly ambiguous views, texts, and representations
examined in this volume. This book was originally published as a
special issue of the journal European Review of History: Revue
Europeenne d'Histoire.
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