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Chargement... Sherston's Progress (1936)par Siegfried Sassoon
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This final book in Sassoon's fictionalized memoir of his youth and service in the First World War covers his time in what we would call therapy, a consequence of his "Soldier's Declaration" critical of the war, as well as his return to duty until the influenza removes him from active duty until war's end. It is fascinating to compare this book with the story told in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy. My only disappointment was that Sassoon ends his memoir with so much of his life yet to live. ( ) This book follows on from "Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man" and "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer". I would recommend reading all 3 books together. George Sherston has been sent back to England to recuperate from an injury sustained in battle in France in WW1. It is during this time that he decides that the war should stop and it is up to him to do it. The army has a different idea and he is sent to a hospital for "shell shocked soldiers" where he has nice "chats" with the doctor which help him see things differently. He does not see himself as suffering the same sort of mental illness as the other patients although he does admit that "something" changed in him following his wounding. Fortunately he also manages to fit in some fox hunting and other leisure pursuits. Nevertheless he is rehabilitated and spends time in Egypt before going back to the battlefield in France and where he fills his spare time reading I enjoyed spending time with George, (Sassoon), and felt he conveyed a genuine empathy for the young soldiers he comanded while dealing with his own emotional conflicts. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The third volume in Siegfried Sassoon's beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. Having been deemed mentally ill for his anti-war sentiments and sent for treatment, George Sherston comes under the care of neurologist Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, who allows Sherston to sort through his attitudes toward the fighting (events that have also been semi-fictionalized by Pat Barker for her bestselling and critically acclaimed Regeneration Trilogy). After six months in the hospital, Sherston leaves to rejoin his regiment. He is soon dispatched to Ireland, where he attempts to reclaim some of the idyllic fox-hunting days of his youth, then to Palestine. He finally ends up at the Western Front in France, where he is shot in the head while on a reconnaissance mission and invalided back home. As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great War. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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