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I have been reading David Jones' In Parenthesis for nearly nine months now. I started after returning from a visit to the battlefields of the Somme during which I realised I did not know enough about the ordinary every-day experiences of the men on the Western front. David Jones was with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and a large part of his motivation for writing In Parenthesis was to remember and honour the men he fought alongside.
He began the book in 1928 and it wasn't published until 1937 so my ...more
He began the book in 1928 and it wasn't published until 1937 so my ...more
Eliot, in the book's Introduction, calls In Parenthesis a "work of genius." It may well be, but for the most part I found the book impenetrable. Usually, this sort of thing (Lost Generation, Modernism, Poetry (sort of), Religion) is right up my alley. I'm quite ready to do the heavy lifting, since in the end (in my experience) the work proves worthwhile. Oh, in general I can follow the arc (which has some beautiful and profound poetic nuggets) of what's going on, but trying to cut through the de
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Nov 20, 2012
Annie
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