Le Feu

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Le Feu is a seminal anti-war novel by Henri Barbusse that vividly depicts the grim realities of French soldiers’ experiences in the trenches during World War I.

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instanceOf anti-war novel
novel
antiWarStance explicit
author Henri Barbusse
awarded Prix Goncourt
awardYear 1916
basedOn Henri Barbusse’s own war experiences
censorshipStatusAtPublication subject to wartime censorship
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes military hierarchy
romanticized views of war
firstPublisherCountry France
form diary-like narrative
frontDepicted French front lines
genre anti-war literature
war novel
hasCharacterType French poilus
historicalContext First World War French literature
influenced later anti-war literature about World War I
literaryMovement naturalism
realism
narrativePerspective first-person
narratorType soldier-narrator
notableFor early major anti-war testimony of World War I
vivid depiction of trench warfare
originalLanguage French
originalTitle Le Feu self-link
portrays French infantry soldiers
conditions in front-line trenches
psychological impact of war on soldiers
portraysEnemy German Army
surface form: German army
publicationYear 1916
recognizedAs classic of anti-war literature
seminal World War I novel
setting French trenches
Western Front
settingPeriod World War I
structure series of episodic scenes
subtitle Journal d’une escouade
theme anti-militarism
camaraderie among soldiers
class differences in the army
horrors of war
soldiers’ daily life in the trenches
timeOfAction 1914–1915

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Henri Barbusse notableWork Le Feu
Barbusse notableWork Le Feu
subject surface form: Henri Barbusse
Barbusse wrote Le Feu
subject surface form: Henri Barbusse
Le Feu originalTitle Le Feu self-link
Under Fire originalTitle Le Feu