![]() From the point of view of the authorities, it needed to be strictly controlled to maintain army and civilian morale, as well as military secrecy. (Thus) the involvement of writers in the war brought about new practices: bearing witness while still using the tools of their trade.” This war transformed the literary milieu and created the “phenomenon of the writer-combatant (writers who became combatants, combatants who became writers, and writers on the home front).”ĭuring the First World War, the print media was an essential source of news. In the first case, this had led to the re-editing and publication of war diaries, memoirs, collections of letters, works that have entered the literary canon such as Ceux de 14 by French combatant Maurice Genevoix and Storm of Steel by German writer Ernst Jünger, as well as books such as Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison, an American brought up in Montreal who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.Īlthough “the combination of writing and the combat experience was not new (but) the First World War introduced a new aspect to it, as it did in many other domains. ![]() The centenary of the First World War has revived interest in the writing done during the 1914–1918 years, on the one hand, and in postwar fiction and non-fiction dealing with the war on the other.
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