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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography Paperback – Large Print, February 1, 1958
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- Print length347 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVintage
- Publication dateFebruary 1, 1958
- Dimensions5.19 x 0.9 x 7.9 inches
- ISBN-100385093306
- ISBN-13978-0385093309
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Paul Fussell is the author of 15 books, including Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War and The Great War and Modern Memory, which won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named by the Modern Library as one of the twentieth century’s 100 best nonfiction books. He taught literature for many years at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife.
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- Publisher : Vintage; 2nd Revised edition (February 1, 1958)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 347 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0385093306
- ISBN-13 : 978-0385093309
- Item Weight : 10.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.19 x 0.9 x 7.9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #105,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #13 in WWI Biographies
- #87 in World War I History (Books)
- #404 in Author Biographies
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ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was an English poet, translator, and novelist, one of the leading English men of letters in the twentieth century. He fought in World War I and won international acclaim in 1929 with the publication of his memoir of the First World War, Good-bye to All That. After the war, he was granted a classical scholarship at Oxford and subsequently went to Egypt as the first professor of English at the University of Cairo. He is most noted for his series of novels about the Roman emperor Claudius and his works on mythology, such as The White Goddess.
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First of all, Graves knows how to write--this memoir is just as entertaining and fun to read as any of his novels. His literacy and narrative ability immediately set him apart from many of the other World War I memoirists--whose books are often clunky and poorly written--as do his wit and his eye for the significant detail. The book is very funny in many places and deeply moving in others. His descriptions of trench life are suitably depressing, as are his tales of the randomness of World War I violence and even the suicidal tendencies of some of the soldiers.
The only things I disliked about Good-bye to All That were Graves's obvious bitterness and the lackluster final third. Graves, of course, is entitled to be bitter about the war--it was a terrible experience for thousands of people--but his view of the war as expressed here is imbalanced. His narrative is significantly skewed and rather self-pitying in places. Also, the strength of his narrative peters out near the end, when he spends some time teaching in Cairo. The last few chapters read more like notable miscellany than a coherent memoir.
Those two misgivings aside, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Not only was it a good memoir, it was a remarkably good source (I read this for a graduate seminar in World War I) for the attitudes and ideals of the "sensitive artistic types" following World War I. If you're interested in comparing this memoir with a vastly different perspective, I recommend reading it along with Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel.
Recommended.
Graves begins by sharing the time he spent in the Engish public school system and the cruelty he experienced there. He enlists in the army to get away from it all and finds much of the same social conventions that he despised replicated in the service. His descriptions of life in the trenches of France is gut wrenching. He is severely wounded and returns to England.
Post War Graves writes of his time at Oxford and his friendship with TE Lawrence (of Arabia)and other notable writers of his generation. I found this part of the book incredibly interesting. Graves and his wife embark on a bicycle trip and stop to visit Thomas Hardy. He and Hardy discuss poetry and literary criticsm.
Folowing that there is a fascinating period that he spends in Egypt teaching.
As a memoir and autobiography this is first rate. In the end the title refers to England itself. Graves left to live out his life in Spain.
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