num_pages: 227
description: "This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern literature. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter talk and high music, wartime terror and ancient myth, Jones, who served as an infantryman on the Western Front, presents a picture at once panoramic and intimate of a world of interminable waiting and unforeseen death. And yet throughout he remains alert to the flashes of humanity that light up the wasteland of war.
language: English
title: In Parenthesis
titlecomplete: In Parenthesis
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Military Fiction, Classics, World War I, Novels, War, Fiction, Poetry, British Literature
ratings_count: 655
awards: awardedAt: -1009814400000
name: Hawthornden Prize
publisher: NYRB Classics