The Embattled Self : French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War

Preface ix Introduction: Experience, Narrative, and Narrator in the Great War 1(19) Rites of Passage and the Initiation to Combat 20(40) The Mastery of Survival: Death, Mutilation, and Killing 60(46) The Genre of Consent 106(42) The Novel and the Search for Closure 148(47) Conclusion 195(8) Bibliography 203(8) Index 211