Wall, Watchtower and Pencil Stub

Writing During World War II

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Journalism, Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: John R. Carpenter ISBN: 9781631580376
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Publication: November 7, 2017
Imprint: Yucca Publishing Language: English
Author: John R. Carpenter
ISBN: 9781631580376
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication: November 7, 2017
Imprint: Yucca Publishing
Language: English

An exploration of the ways writers—from Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer to anonymous individuals—used literature to remember and heal from World War II.
 
In Wall, Watchtower, and Pencil Stub, John R. Carpenter explores how literteray figures in the mid-twentieth-century, including Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others, tried to communicate and process the horrors they experienced during World War II and its aftermath. Along with writers, anonymous civilians gave voice to experiences of occupation and imprisonment so that those who didn’t survive would not be forgotten.
 
Wall, Watchtower, and Pencil Stub makes the case for the permanent centrality of World War II in our present-day culture, literature, and history. This is a “fascinating and engaging account . . . [that] touches on a wide variety of examples, from sophisticated literature to scrawled notes thrown by prisoners from trains” (Philip Fried).

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An exploration of the ways writers—from Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer to anonymous individuals—used literature to remember and heal from World War II.
 
In Wall, Watchtower, and Pencil Stub, John R. Carpenter explores how literteray figures in the mid-twentieth-century, including Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others, tried to communicate and process the horrors they experienced during World War II and its aftermath. Along with writers, anonymous civilians gave voice to experiences of occupation and imprisonment so that those who didn’t survive would not be forgotten.
 
Wall, Watchtower, and Pencil Stub makes the case for the permanent centrality of World War II in our present-day culture, literature, and history. This is a “fascinating and engaging account . . . [that] touches on a wide variety of examples, from sophisticated literature to scrawled notes thrown by prisoners from trains” (Philip Fried).

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