Goodbye To All That Av Robert Graves

Goodbye To All That Av Robert Graves

Robert Graves, aged nineteen, left school within a week of the outbreak of World War I, and immediately volunteered with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. His experiences as a junior officer form the heart of this compelling autobiography. Beginning with an ironic overview of his Edwardian childhood, he proceeds to a tongue......
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<p>Robert Graves, aged nineteen, left school within a week of the outbreak of World War I, and immediately volunteered with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. His experiences as a junior officer form the heart of this compelling autobiography. Beginning with an ironic overview of his Edwardian childhood, he proceeds to a tongue-in-cheek account of a young poet''s life at public school (not helpful to be half-German, but handy to take up boxing), progressing to caricatures of military stereotypes he encounters in training, and the devastating farce of the War itself, the blundering and mismanagement, and the appalling human consequences. Graves''s handling of the horrors of war is always deadpan, honest and unadorned. It is wholly in line with his sense of the absurd that his commanding officer should write to inform his parents that he had died of wounds during the battle of the Somme. He soon found that patriotism was meaningless to the men in the trenches; loyalty to comrades alive and dead
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Robert Graves, aged nineteen, left school within a week of the outbreak of World War I, and immediately volunteered with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. His experiences as a junior officer form the heart of this compelling autobiography. Beginning with an ironic overview of his Edwardian childhood, he proceeds to a tongue-in-cheek account of a young poet's life at public school (not helpful to be half-German, but handy to take up boxing), progressing to caricatures of military stereotypes he encounters in training, and the devastating farce of the War itself, the blundering and mismanagement, and the appalling human consequences. Graves's handling of the horrors of war is always deadpan, honest and unadorned. It is wholly in line with his sense of the absurd that his commanding officer should write to inform his parents that he had died of wounds during the battle of the Somme. He soon found that patriotism was meaningless to the men in the trenches; loyalty to comrades alive and dead drove him back to active service though still suffering from shell-shock.Goodbye to All That takes Graves through his convalescence in England, his efforts to protect the poet Siegfried Sassoon, a friend and fellow officer, from the consequences of his public denunciation of the war; marriage to artist and feminist Nancy Nicholson, postwar undergraduate years at Oxford and a decade as a struggling writer with four young children, beset with money problems and neurasthenia. It is written in a spirit of defiance as he prepared to put 'all that' behind him and begin a new life in Majorca with the American poet Laura Riding.
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Robert Graves, aged nineteen, left school within a week of the outbreak of World War I, and immediately volunteered with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. His experiences as a junior officer form the heart of this compelling autobiography. Beginning with an ironic overview of his Edwardian childhood, he proceeds to a tongue-in-cheek account of a young poet''s life at public school (not helpful to be half-German, but handy to take up boxing), progressing to caricatures of military stereotypes he encounters in training, and the devastating farce of the War itself, the blundering and mismanagement, and the appalling human consequences. Graves''s handling of the horrors of war is always deadpan, honest and unadorned. It is wholly in line with his sense of the absurd that his commanding officer should write to inform his parents that he had died of wounds during the battle of the Somme. He soon found that patriotism was meaningless to the men in the trenches; loyalty to comrades alive and dead drove him back to active service though still suffering from shell-shock. Goodbye to All That takes Graves through his convalescence in England, his efforts to protect the poet Siegfried Sassoon, a friend and fellow officer, from the consequences of his public denunciation of the war; marriage to artist and feminist Nancy Nicholson, postwar undergraduate years at Oxford and a decade as a struggling writer with four young children, beset with money problems and neurasthenia. It is written in a spirit of defiance as he prepared to put ''all that'' behind him and begin a new life in Majorca with the American poet Laura Riding.

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Oppdag Robert Graves’ Fascinerende Verden

Goodbye To All That Av Robert Graves er ikke bare en bok; det er en reise gjennom en ung poets øyne under den forferdelige første verdenskrigen. Graves, som bare var nitten år gammel da han meldte seg frivillig til Royal Welch Fusiliers, deler sine gripende erfaringer som junioroffiser, og tar oss med på en utrolig informativ reise fra hans Edwardianske barndom til krigens brutale realiteter.

En Unik Autobiografi

I Goodbye To All That kombinerer Graves mørk humor med en rå, ærlig fremstilling av krigen. Verdenskrigen blir skildret gjennom hans ironiske observasjoner av militære stereotyper, opplevelser i skyttergravene, og de uuttalte konsekvensene av en meningsløs patriotisme. Med begivenheter som å motta en dødsbeskjed fra hans kommandør, får leseren innsikt i hvordan lojalitet overfor kamerater ble det som drev ham tilbake til fronten, selv etter å ha vært utsatt for skrekkens traumer.

Liv Etter Krigen

  • Forhold og Familieliv: Graves’ liv etter krigen var preget av hans ekteskap med kunstneren Nancy Nicholson og utfordringene med å oppdra fire barn.
  • Kreativ Kamp: Han beskriver sine strabaser som nyutdannet ved Oxford, og kampen for å bli anerkjent som forfatter i en tid med økonomiske problemer og mental helse.
  • Defiant Avskjed: Boken inkorporerer en ånd av motstand, idet Graves forbereder seg på å legge fortiden bak seg og starte på nytt i Majorca med poeten Laura Riding.

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