On Distant Ground | Literary Precedents
Often readers comparing more recent literature to earlier "war stories" look back to classics such as Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (1895; see separate entry) or Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929; see separate entry) for models of soldiers struggling to understand themselves as they react to privation, boredom, desperation and horrors of warfare. In On Distant Ground, Butler portrays a minimum of violence, focusing far more on the soldier laboring to interpret his feelings and actions, and to choose to act rigidly. In this regard, this novel...
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