The Bowmen of Shu (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Guy Davenport
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Plot: War
- Time of Work: 1914-1915
- Setting: The World War I French-German front
- Principal Characters: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Sophie
- Genres: Short fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: World War I, Sculpting or sculptors, Tunnels
- Locales: France, Germany
The Story
The title of “The Bowmen of Shu” suggests a time and place far from the World War I foxholes that readers see the story's hero, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, inhabiting. The twenty-three-year-old French sculptor, in whose work and intelligence the poet Ezra Pound discerned the signs of a twentieth century renaissance, has left his London studio for the trenches. Readers see him sleeping on mud and ice, fighting lustily, meditating on art, war, and nature, asking London correspondents about the art culture he is cut off from, and discussing labyrinths with the scholar and...
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