Archive for the ‘Fiction’ Category
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Gustav Flaubert on Love and Revolution
10 Oct 2019Gustav Flaubert, known in the entire literate world as the author of Madame Bovary and not much beyond that,…
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The Use of Man — Aleksandar Tišma
20 Sep 2019Wars are waged and war novels are written. Seldom are they written about small, out-of-the-way places or non-heroic people, …
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The Communist – A Novel from Italy
21 Aug 2019The number of readers for a novel titled The Communist, in the United States, with its long history of…
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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
01 May 2019Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where…
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The Gallery by John Horne Burns: Americans in Naples, 1944
24 Apr 2019Missing in almost all war fiction, from the time of Gilgamesh (2800 BCE) on, is the recognition that war…
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One Man’s Justice – Akira Yoshimura
08 Apr 2019The stories we tell about what we know and what we suppose, what we fear and what we love,…
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A Small Circus – Hans Fallada; Small town life in 1929 Germany
02 Apr 2019One of the most memorable and powerful novels I have read in recent years is Hans Fallada‘s Every Man…
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Soldiers Alive – A Novel of the Japanese in China, 1937
11 Jan 2019For century upon century, from the time of the stories of Gilgamesh (18th BCE), stories of war have been told…
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Red Cavalry — Isaac Babel; Russia at War
05 Dec 2018In between wars are other wars. Men fight in them all, whatever is available. Between World War I and…
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War Resistance in Japan, WWII
23 Nov 2018Avoidance of conscription in Japan during WWII was the most heinous of crimes: worse than rape, or murder. Those…
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Resistance and Subversion in Literature and Movies
20 Nov 2018We like our stories of resistance to great evil to include bold cunning, great daring and a good complement…
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The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
15 Nov 2018The Return of the Soldier was Rebecca West‘s (later, Dame Rebecca West) first novel. Though considered slight against her later…
