The OF Blog: World War I
Showing posts with label World War I. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War I. Show all posts

Sunday, February 02, 2014

Just created a new blog for the World War I project

For those interested in the Great War/World War I, I just created a Wordpress blog entitled World War I Literature, Art, and Cinema for the purpose of covering over the next four years some of the works that are related to that terrible conflict.  While I plan on crossposting much of the content here, starting in late spring, there should be at least weekly, if not close to daily, posts on the literature, art, and cinema connected to WWI.  The link can be found under the Historical Fiction section of my blogroll.  First post is already up and contains a very partial list (to which I'll be adding/editing over the next few months) of works I plan on covering.  Please feel free to leave a comment over there suggesting other titles for consideration.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

A query: What are some of the good novels of World War I?

Later this year, on July 28, the centennial of the Great War/World War I will occur.  This period, 1914-1918, and the period that immediately follows it, 1919-1938, was of great interest to me when I was completing my MA in European History (emphasis on German cultural/religious).  I am fairly well-read on the non-fiction, but I am thinking of mixing in some fictional works, both those written by those who lived though/fought in the war, as well as works that appeared decades later.  What are some of the titles that you know of/have read?  Below is an incomplete listing of works that I have already read (there are many others that I could list, but I don't want to look up how to spell the author's name or the title to make sure):

John dos Passos, The Three Soldiers

Erick Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (and its immediate sequels)

Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

Pat Barker, Regeneration trilogy

Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War


There are a handful of others that come to mind, but what I really need to discover are works that were written in French, Italian, German, and the Slavic languages.  If you know of any, whether they were written in the 1910s or 192s or whether they were written decades later, please list the titles, as I would like to do a special series of commentaries/reviews from June-August on the war.  Already have a few memoirs/histories in mind for this as well (Modris Eksteins, Barbara Tuchman, Robert Graves, Ernst Jünger, Paul Fussell, etc.), not to mention some poetry, but I would like a few more novels to round things out.  So...what are your suggestions?
 
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