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1914, a novel, Jean Echenoz ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

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1914, a novel, Jean Echenoz ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

1914

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electronic resource eBook

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Jean Echenoz ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi?award?winning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiable?and still unthinkable?carnage of trench warfare.With the delicacy of a miniaturist and with irony both witty and clear?eyed, the author offers us an intimate epic with the atmosph

Table Of Contents

1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; Translator's Notes

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Nineteen fourteen

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