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1914 : a novel

Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi-award winning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiable and still unthinkable carnage of trench warfare. With the delicacy of a miniaturist and with irony both witty and clear-eyed, the author offers us an intimate epic with the atmosphere of a classic movie: in the panorama of a clear blue sky, a biplane spirals suddenly into the ground; a tardy piece of shrapnel shears the top off a man's head as if it were a soft-boiled egg; we dawdle dreamily in a springscented clearing with a lonely shellshocked soldier strolling innocently to a firing squad ready to shoot him.

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  • "Vierzehn"
  • "Четырнадцатый"
  • "Quatorze"@sl
  • "Quatorze"
  • "Hamalau"
  • "Štirinajst"@sl
  • "Chetyrnadt︠s︡atyĭ"
  • "Nineteen fourteen"
  • "Nineteen fourteen"@en
  • "Catorze"
  • "Veertien"
  • "14"@it
  • "Fourteen"
  • "Catorce"
  • "Catorce"@es

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  • "Five Frenchmen go off to war, including two brothers who leave behind Blanche, a woman they both love, who longs to find out whether either one will be coming home to her."
  • "Août 1914. Dans la France entière, le tocsin sonne le rassemblement des troupes. C'est la mobilisation générale. Anthime, son frère aîné Charles, Padioleau, Bossis et Arcenel font partie des appelés qui s'en vont au front la fleur au fusil. À ce jour, on ne parle pas encore de Grande Guerre. (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso)."
  • "Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi-award winning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiable and still unthinkable carnage of trench warfare. With the delicacy of a miniaturist and with irony both witty and clear-eyed, the author offers us an intimate epic with the atmosphere of a classic movie: in the panorama of a clear blue sky, a biplane spirals suddenly into the ground; a tardy piece of shrapnel shears the top off a man's head as if it were a soft-boiled egg; we dawdle dreamily in a springscented clearing with a lonely shellshocked soldier strolling innocently to a firing squad ready to shoot him."@en
  • "Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi-award winning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiable and still unthinkable carnage of trench warfare. With the delicacy of a miniaturist and with irony both witty and clear-eyed, the author offers us an intimate epic with the atmosphere of a classic movie: in the panorama of a clear blue sky, a biplane spirals suddenly into the ground; a tardy piece of shrapnel shears the top off a man's head as if it were a soft-boiled egg; we dawdle dreamily in a springscented clearing with a lonely shellshocked soldier strolling innocently to a firing squad ready to shoot him."
  • ""¿Cómo escribir sobre la Gran Guerra, la primera guerra tecnológica del siglo XX, y la puerta, también, a medio siglo de barbarie sin precedentes? Echenoz se enfrenta a un nuevo reto literario que supera con maestría. La certera pluma del escritor avanza junto a los soldados en sus largas jornadas de marcha por los países en guerra y acompaña a cuatro jóvenes de la Vendée, Anthime y sus amigos, en medio de una masa indiscernible de carne y metal, de proyectiles y muertos. Pero también nos cuenta la vida que continúa, lejos de las trincheras, a través de personajes como Blanche y su familia. Y todo ello sin renunciar a esa sutil ironía que caracteriza su escritura, condimento imprescindible de un relato apasionante"--publisher's website."
  • "Frankreich, 1914: Ein idyllischer Sommertag, Anthime radelt durch die sonnenbeschienene Vendée. Er hört die Sturmglocken läuten, das Signal für die allgemeine Mobilmachung. Mit der alle gerechnet haben, nur nicht an einem Samstag, dem 1. August. Echenoz erzählt vier Kriegsjahre im Zeitraffer: Fünf Männer ziehen in den Krieg, eine schwangere Frau wartet auf die Rückkehr von zweien von ihnen. Bleibt zu erfahren, ob sie wiederkommen. Und wann. Und in welchem Zustand. Der Erste Weltkrieg ist heute nicht mehr mit traditionellen Mitteln darstellbar - Echenoz als Meister der Romansubversion zeigt, wie es anders gelingt."

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  • "Roman français"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Roman psychologique"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Novel·la francesa"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Powieść francuska"@pl
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Livres numériques"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "14 Französische Lektüre für das 5. und 6. Lernjahr. B2"
  • "14-й : [роман]"
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  • "14"
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  • "1914 : a novel"
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  • "14 : Roman"
  • "1914 A Novel"
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  • "1914 a Novel"@en
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  • "14 : [roman]"
  • "14 : roman"
  • "14 Roman"

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