The art of survival : France and the Great War picaresque /
Murphy, Libby,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index.
A literary war : irony, tragedy, and the return of the picaresque -- Tactics of the foot soldier : the arts and antics of Le Système D -- Georges de la Fouchardière : oppositional journalism, involuntary heroism, and Bourrage de crâne -- The comedy of independence : the "man on the street" goes off to war -- Animal instincts : lessons from a trench rat -- Phlegm meets flair : images of the infantryman in wartime Britain and France -- Le Cafard : brutalization, alienation, and despair -- Charlie Chaplin's little tramp : from the art of survival to the survival of art.
World War, 1914-1918