American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1536 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The War Novel After the War
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The idea
Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, of nineteen forty-eight, and James Jones's From Here to Eternity, of nineteen fifty-one, used realism verging on grim naturalism and took pains not to glorify combat. Irwin Shaw and Herman Wouk wrote in the same realist vein.
In practice
Realism first, absurdity a decade later.
Where people slip
The satirical war novels came later.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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