I’ve previously written about Paul Fussell’s “The Great War
and Modern Memory,” and have to conclude that while Fussell has introduced me
to other writers I should probably read, I’m probably not going to read this
book again.
He makes a good argument. Over and over and over again. And
over again. I’m pretty sure he could have argued that writers’ experience in
World War I and their familiarity with common motifs and metaphors in English
literature were going to influence each other and probably mean some of the
motifs and metaphors would be used in an ironic fashion in a lot fewer pages
than he uses in this book. And that’s okay. He’s an academic, and it’s his job
to go on and on and on and on and on about what he believes in. I’m a blogger;
I get that.
But I can also be brief.
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