Bearing Witness: How Writers Brought the Brutality of World

Bearing Witness: How Writers Brought the Brutality of World War II to Light

It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literatureâ€”Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and othersâ€”can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human history even as it broke out and raged on around them.

In Bearing Witness, John Carpenter explores how across the world those who experienced the war tried to make sense of it both during and in its immediate aftermath. Writers such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Theodore Plievier questioned the ruling parties of the time based on what they saw. Correspondents and writer-soldiers like John Hersey and James Jones revealed the chaotic and bloody reality of the front lines to the public. And civilians, many of who remain anonymous, lent voice to occupation and imprisonment so that those who didnâ€™t survive would not be forgotten.

The digestion of a cataclysmic event can take generations. But in this fascinating book, Carpenter brings together all those who did their best to communicate what they saw in the moment so that it could never be lost.
Country USA
Brand Skyhorse
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ReleaseDate 2017-11-14
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Country	USA
Brand	Skyhorse
Manufacturer	Skyhorse
Binding	Paperback
IsAdultProduct
Height	9
Length	6
Weight	0.80027801106
Width	0.8
ReleaseDate	2017-11-14
NumberOfItems	1

Bearing Witness: How Writers Brought the Brutality of World War II to Light

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