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Translation by Josée Kamoun and Guy Jamin
Here is an uncompromising account of the shock of the First World War, a learning novel where romantic feelings are magnified by the urgency of living, as well as a poignant feminist and pacifist manifesto.
By describing to us the enthusiasm and the romantic ideals of her youth, Vera Brittain looks back on her struggle as a woman to enter Oxford University, on her first love broken by the disastrous fate that many young men were to experience in during the Great War, on her engagement as a volunteer nurse in Malta and France. It brings to light the cruel disillusions of a society struggling to project and reinvent itself; she tells us of the guilt of the elders in the face of the tragedy into which they have precipitated their children. She defends the urgency and the need for a lasting peace by working for the League of Nations, without forgetting her struggles as a woman of letters.
Bestseller several times adapted for the screen and acclaimed in its time by Virginia Woolf, Memories of youth – published in 1933 and translated for the first time into French – is one of the great classics of 20th century English literature.
Pacifist and feminist, Vera Brittain (1893-1970) is the author of Memoirs of Youth. Published in 1933 and translated for the first time into French, acclaimed in its time by Virginia Woolf, this bestseller adapted several times for the screen is one of the great classics of English literature of the 20th century.
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