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Troy, William | November 21, 1936 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Bitter Victory," by Louis Guilloux. Apparently this novel began with the notion of tracing on a grand scale, by means of the unanimiste technique, the moral and psychological degradation of a whole community in provincial France in the third year of the World War. Such a scheme is promised in the opening chapters, in which readers are introduced in rapid order to a fair assortment of local worthies gathered to do honor to a deputy's wife on her receipt of the Legion of Honor. There is a dull-witted general surrounded by appreciative female, there is a pompous little schoolmaster who has composed a poem for the occasion without realizing that his son has just been reported dead.

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BITTER Victory (Book); GUILLOUX, Louis; WAR -- Moral & ethical aspects; DISTRESS (Psychology); POETRY; LITERATURE; COMMUNITIES
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