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Abstract. This chapter argues that the pastoral mode in Rebecca West’s First World War novel The Return of the Soldier stages many of the levels of the process of recording history. Due to the protagonist’s shell-shock, we are never directly presented with trench warfare; West instead exploits the pastoral trope of presence via absence: Christopher Baldry’s amnesia continually suggests a ...
1 de mar. de 2011 · Return of the Soldier was indeed a case study of the effects of the First World War within two fronts, home and on the battlefield. Written in 1919, Rebecca West tells a tale of the ravages of war on the Baldry family, Chris and Kitty and their one-year old son, Cousin Jenny, and Chris’s old college flame Margaret.
The Return of the Soldier, the debut novel of one of the most lauded writers of the twentieth century, delves into the complex relationships between three women who are bound by friendship, family, and love to one soldier whose fate becomes their shared concern.When returns from the trenches of World War I, his mental trauma and amnesia testify to the horrors of war while simultaneously ...
Chris describes the youthful Margaret as shy, sharp-minded, and loving. After her breakup with Chris and her father’s death, Margaret eventually married Mr. Grey, and although she isn’t in love with him, she’s happiest while taking care of him; she becomes depressed when she doesn’t have someone to look after and protect.
THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER. Directed by. Alan Bridges. United Kingdom, 1982. Drama. 99. Synopsis. A haughty society queen’s complacency is rocked when her husband returns from the front during WW1 shell-shocked and suffering amnesia, not knowing who she is and determined for a reunion with a working class lover from his past. Synopsis.
“Every inch a soldier.” She crept behind me to the window, peered over my shoulder and saw. I heard her suck in her breath with satisfaction. “He’s cured!” she whispered slowly. “He’s cured!” — West, THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER T he conclusion to he Return of the Soldier has disappointed many of Rebecca West’s readers.
29 de oct. de 2018 · In spite of these flaws, The Return of the Soldier is worth reading for its excoriating depiction of the British class system, its evocation of a lost world, and, above all, West’s wonderful writing. (I read the Penguin Classics edition, which is pricey for a 90-page paperback but otherwise recommended.) *422 pages, which might not strike you ...
