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Hell (Paperback)
Henri Barbusse; Introduction by Joshua Andrew
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R256
Discovery Miles 2 560
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Happiness needs unhappiness. Joy goes hand in hand with sorrow. It
is thanks to the shadow that we exist. We must not dream of an
absurd abstraction. We must guard the bond that links us to blood
and earth. 'Just as I am!' Remember that. We are a great mixture."
A young man, tired of life and love, indifferent to the people and
world around him, takes up a room in a Parisienne boarding house.
Noises from the adjoining room draw his attention to a hole in the
wall, and he observes its occupants through it. He becomes obsessed
with the individual episodes of human life that play out before his
eyes; love, adultery, incest, childbirth, death, thievery and
betrayal. Through his voyeurism, the unnamed narrator becomes an
omniscient godlike character, observing the room's inhabitants in
their most private and naked moments. The hole becomes a window to
the very soul of humanity and the human condition. But as with
Prometheus, his godlike powers come at a cost. * * Henri Barbusse
(1873 - 1935) was a French novelist, and political activist. He was
editor of "Clarte", the periodicals "Monde" (1928-1935) and
"Progres Civique", which published some of George Orwell's first
writings. He was also literary editor for the daily newspaper
"l'Humanite" from 1926 to 1929. Barbusse was the author of a 1936
biography of Joseph Stalin, titled "Staline: Un monde nouveau vu a
travers un homme" (Stalin. A New World Seen Through the Man).
Barbusse was an Esperantist, and was honorary president of the
first congress of the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda. While writing a
second biography of Stalin in Moscow, Barbusse fell ill with
pneumonia and died on 30 August 1935.
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Hell (Paperback, New edition)
Henri Barbusse; Translated by Robert Baldrick, Robert Baldick
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R445
R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
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A novel, translated by Robert Baldick. A young man staying in a
Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed.
Alternately voyeur and seer, he obsessively studies the private
moments and secret activities of his neighbors: childbirth, first
love, marriage, betrayal, illness and death all present themselves
to him through this spy hole. Decades ahead of its time, "Hell"
shocked and scandalized the reviewing public when first released in
English in 1866. Even so, the New Republic praised "the beauty of
the book's nervous yet fluid rhythms... The book sweeps, away
life's illusions."
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Under Fire (Paperback)
Henri Barbusse; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R375
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
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Under Fire (1916) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Written from notes
taken while Barbusse was serving in the First World War, the novel
was quickly recognized as a powerful tale of perseverance and
comradery in the face of unspeakable suffering. Intended to promote
the cause of pacifism, Under Fire is deeply critical of the rich
and powerful men whose inability to live peacefully leads time and
again to the sacrifice of countless human lives. "Each country
whose frontiers are consumed by carnage is seen tearing from its
heart ever more warriors of full blood and force. One's eyes follow
the flow of these living tributaries to the River of Death. To
north and south and west afar there are battles on every side. Turn
where you will, there is war in every corner of that vastness."
Even from a distance, war is hell on earth, but it is not something
that can be described in the abstract, if it can be described at
all. Such a luxury-available only to the leaders who declare war's
beginning and end-is not afforded to those are sent to fight.
Following a squad of French volunteers on the Western front, Henri
Barbusse provides a realistically brutal vision of death and
survival that refuses to glorify the loss of a single life. As a
soldier-turned-pacifist, Barbusse brings his reader as close as
possible to the trenches and fields of battle in order to dispel
the myths that continue to justify and obscure the deaths of the
poor and powerless. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Henri Barbusse's
Under Fire is a classic work of French literature reimagined for
modern readers.
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L'illusion
Henri Barbusse
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R470
Discovery Miles 4 700
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Hell (Paperback)
Henri Barbusse; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R231
R196
Discovery Miles 1 960
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Hell (1908) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Immensely popular upon
its publication in France, Hell earned Barbusse a reputation as a
leading realist whose existential preoccupations predate the novels
and plays of Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre by
several decades. His portrait of ennui, isolation, and urban life
remains both stylistically and thematically fresh over a century
after it appeared in print. "A whole world of human beings had
passed here like smoke, leaving nothing white but the window. And
I? I am a man like every other man, just as that evening was like
every other evening." In this claustrophobic, lyric novel, an
unnamed narrator moves into a rundown apartment in Paris. There, he
grows increasingly isolated from the world outside, turning instead
to the lives of his many neighbors. Through the thin walls, which
contain a hidden peephole, he listens and watches as strangers
conduct the secret dramas of their daily lives. Witnessing acts of
adultery, lesbianism, incest, theft, and abuse, he grows
increasingly dependent on the adrenaline rush of voyeurism,
withdrawing further and further from the life of the bustling city.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Henri Barbusse's Hell is a classic work
of French literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Hell (Hardcover)
Henri Barbusse; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R358
R299
Discovery Miles 2 990
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Hell (1908) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Immensely popular upon
its publication in France, Hell earned Barbusse a reputation as a
leading realist whose existential preoccupations predate the novels
and plays of Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre by
several decades. His portrait of ennui, isolation, and urban life
remains both stylistically and thematically fresh over a century
after it appeared in print. "A whole world of human beings had
passed here like smoke, leaving nothing white but the window. And
I? I am a man like every other man, just as that evening was like
every other evening." In this claustrophobic, lyric novel, an
unnamed narrator moves into a rundown apartment in Paris. There, he
grows increasingly isolated from the world outside, turning instead
to the lives of his many neighbors. Through the thin walls, which
contain a hidden peephole, he listens and watches as strangers
conduct the secret dramas of their daily lives. Witnessing acts of
adultery, lesbianism, incest, theft, and abuse, he grows
increasingly dependent on the adrenaline rush of voyeurism,
withdrawing further and further from the life of the bustling city.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Henri Barbusse's Hell is a classic work
of French literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Under Fire (Hardcover)
Henri Barbusse; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R610
R504
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Under Fire (1916) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Written from notes
taken while Barbusse was serving in the First World War, the novel
was quickly recognized as a powerful tale of perseverance and
comradery in the face of unspeakable suffering. Intended to promote
the cause of pacifism, Under Fire is deeply critical of the rich
and powerful men whose inability to live peacefully leads time and
again to the sacrifice of countless human lives. "Each country
whose frontiers are consumed by carnage is seen tearing from its
heart ever more warriors of full blood and force. One's eyes follow
the flow of these living tributaries to the River of Death. To
north and south and west afar there are battles on every side. Turn
where you will, there is war in every corner of that vastness."
Even from a distance, war is hell on earth, but it is not something
that can be described in the abstract, if it can be described at
all. Such a luxury-available only to the leaders who declare war's
beginning and end-is not afforded to those are sent to fight.
Following a squad of French volunteers on the Western front, Henri
Barbusse provides a realistically brutal vision of death and
survival that refuses to glorify the loss of a single life. As a
soldier-turned-pacifist, Barbusse brings his reader as close as
possible to the trenches and fields of battle in order to dispel
the myths that continue to justify and obscure the deaths of the
poor and powerless. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Henri Barbusse's
Under Fire is a classic work of French literature reimagined for
modern readers.
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Meissonier
Henri Barbusse; Edited by Henry Roujon
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R335
Discovery Miles 3 350
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The Inferno
Henri Barbusse
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R838
Discovery Miles 8 380
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The Inferno
Henri Barbusse
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R495
Discovery Miles 4 950
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Light (Paperback)
Henri Barbusse
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R976
Discovery Miles 9 760
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Light (Hardcover)
Henri Barbusse
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R1,444
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