This volume focuses on poems by French frontline soldiers that address the suffering resulting from the experience of war. They bear witness, bring charges, and function as a medium for coping with traumatic experiences. Some of the texts examined come from the literary canon of the time (Apollinaire, Cocteau, Drieu La Rochelle), but the volume also considers an extensive corpus of neglected and forgotten poetic texts.

Autorentext

Martina Meidl, University of Klagenfurt, Austria.