In Parenthesis

by Jones, David; Jones, Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780670001392
• ISBN10: 0670001392
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

" 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. i
A Note of Introduction	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
The many men so beautiful	p. 1
Chambers go off, corporals stay	p. 13
Starlight order	p. 27
King Pellam's Launde	p. 59
Squat garlands for White Knights	p. 103
Pavilions and Captains of Hundreds	p. 135
The five unmistakable marks	p. 153
Notes
General Notes	p. 191
Part 1	p. 192
Part 2	p. 192
Part 3	p. 193
Part 4	p. 202
Part 5	p. 213
Part 6	p. 218
Part 7	p. 220
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