The missing of the Somme / Geoff Dyer.
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TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2011, c1994.Description: xiii, 157 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0307742970 :
- 9780307742971 :
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance--and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose determined--sometimes in advance of the events described--the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-151) and index.
This reflection on World War I is not your standard history; it's about mourning and memory, about how the Great War has been represented. It will appeal to readers interested in looking beyond the facts to the meaning and consequences of war in general.