Regeneration (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Pat Barker
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Historical Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, Novelists, War, World War I, Military life or service, Armed forces, Hospitals, Battles, Pacifism, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists
- Locales: Edinburgh, Scotland
The unusual thing about British novelist Pat Barker’s new book is that it manages to convey the horror of trench warfare during World War I without ever taking the reader to the battlefields in France. All the descriptions of shellings, futile charges into machine-gun fire, and piles of mutilated corpses are conveyed through the memories of hospitalized British officers who were unable to force themselves to go on. They suffer from nightmares, hysterical blindness, muscular paralysis, loss of speech, and other afflictions. These shattered men are seen through the eyes of the...
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