Un homme de trente ans, blase par la vie, trouve un travail dans une banque a Paris. Il emmenage dans une pension de famille. Dans l'obscurite de sa chambre, il apercoit une fissure dans le mur ouvrant sur la chambre d'a cote. Il va alors se mettre a observer les divers occupants de celle-ci."
Un homme de trente ans, blase par la vie, trouve un travail dans une banque a Paris. Il emmenage dans une pension de famille. Dans l'obscurite de sa c...
When we have descended for a long time the gradient ends, the avenue flattens out like a river, and widens as it pierces the town. Through the latticed boughs of the old plane trees-still naked on this last day of March-one glimpses the workmen's houses, upright in space, hazy and fantastic chessboards, with squares of light dabbed on in places, or like vertical cliffs in which our swarming is absorbed. Scattering among the twilight colonnade of the trees, these people engulf themselves in the heaped-up lodgings and rooms; they flow together in the cavity of doors; they plunge into the...
When we have descended for a long time the gradient ends, the avenue flattens out like a river, and widens as it pierces the town. Through the lattice...
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad was one of the first novels about World War I to be published. Although it is fiction, the novel was based on Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front. The novel takes the form of journal-like anecdotes which the unnamed narrator claims to be writing to record his time in the war. It follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers on the Western front in France after the German invasion. The book opens and ends with broad visions shared by multiple characters but beyond these the action of the novel takes place in...
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad was one of the first novels about World War I to be published. Although it is fiction, the novel was base...
