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A Man Could Stand Up (Parade's End #3)
With his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford set himself a work of immense scale and ambition: "I wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time... The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war." Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers on Christopher Tietjens,...more
Library Binding, 347 pages
Published
February 1st 1985
by Darby Books
(first published 1926)
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Originally published on my blog here in September 2000.
The third of Ford's Parade's End series also has a title which looks to the end of the First World War; it is a remark made by one of the men in the trenches that peace will make it possible for a man to stand up without risking being killed. However, when the end of the war comes, Christopher Tietjens is not in a position to stand up; he is suffering from shellshock exacerbated by the treatment he receives from his dreadful wife Sylvia. The...more
The third of Ford's Parade's End series also has a title which looks to the end of the First World War; it is a remark made by one of the men in the trenches that peace will make it possible for a man to stand up without risking being killed. However, when the end of the war comes, Christopher Tietjens is not in a position to stand up; he is suffering from shellshock exacerbated by the treatment he receives from his dreadful wife Sylvia. The...more
Once again, great. A Man Could Stand Up is even more dependent on the other novels in the tetrology than the two preceding it, but it distances itself from them considerably. The tone of the novel has altered drastically in accordance with the transformation of Tietjens and Valentine. Tietjens, who had been severed from his tradition by his first injury and call to the front lines (also reflected in the much more stable chronologically of this novel, as opposed to the interweaving flashes of mem...more
All right, one more to go! This series of four books, known collectively as Parade's End, is easily the comprehensive declaration of post-World War I modernism. Through its techniques and story we see the soul of a movement that had roots in previous literary movements but was forced to move on and change as the landscape of the world changed. Even then, the initial modernist writers would not give up their roots entirely, even though they knew these traditions would die with them.
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The title refers to being able to stand up on a hilltop and not get shot, that is, the
war would be over.
The focus shifts to life in the trenches. Though instead of combat the modern side of war is covered, the paperwork; the organizing of expenses, the craziness of forms, forms, forms.
Tiejtens experiences are bookended by Valentine's thoughts on him at war, her love for
him, but he has never contacted her during the entire war.
His old friend, MacMaster, owes him some money. MacMaster's wife woul...more
This third part of Ford's novel about WW1 deals with the cental character, Christopher Tietjens, experiences in the trenches of WW1. The detail and descriptive narrative is very powerful, and I found myself feeling as if I was in the trenches with the men, suffering alongisde the soldiers the stress, agonies and deprivations they went through. Hard to read in the sense that the language is very dense but moving, but repays the effort if you wish to understand why such an awful war changed societ...more
I read all four books in this series, and although I found them easy enough to read, I didn't have a clue what was going on half the time.Maybe it's me.
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Overlooked masterpiece. BUT will be a masterpiece theater mini-series, so one can hope it becomes better known.
Never mind the previous. This is war, man.
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Ford Madox Ford was the author of over 60 works: novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and reminiscences. His work includes The Good Soldier, Parade's End, The Rash Act, and Ladies Whose Bright Eyes. He worked as the editor of the English Review and the Transatlantic Review and collaborated with Joseph Conrad on The Inheritors, Romance, and other works. Ford lived in both France and the United...more
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