In Parenthesis [Paperback]

David Jones (Author), W.S. Merwin (Foreword), T.S. Eliot (Introduction)

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics (July 31 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590170369
ISBN-13: 978-1590170366
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 2 x 27.9 cm
Shipping Weight: 259 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #335,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern literature. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter talk and high music, wartime terror and ancient myth, Jones, who served as an infantryman on the Western Front, presents a picture at once panoramic and intimate of a world of interminable waiting and unforeseen death. And yet throughout he remains alert to the flashes of humanity that light up the wasteland of war.

About the Author

David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent. In 1915, then an art student, he went to war with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he fought in the battles of the Somme and Ypres. In 1922 he began a long association with the artist Eric Gill. In Parenthesis, based on Jones's experiences in World War I, was published in 1937, followed in 1952 by The Anathemata. David Jones's works are exhibited at the Tate Museum and the National Museum of Wales. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have of first world war literature., Dec 26 2010

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One of the most surreal, dream/nightmare visions of war ever written. It crashes through the barrier between the subconscious, primal mind, and the awful reality.

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