The Fiction of the 1940s
Subtitle: Stories of Survival
Contributors: Rod Mengham (Editor); N. H. Reeve (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780333918852
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1945 to c 1960; Political Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Politics/International Relations; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Essays; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Collections-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; International Relations - General; Military - World War II; 20th century; English fiction; Great Britain; History and criticism; Literature and the war; War stories, English; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: 'No, there is no such thing as being alone together,' Elizabeth Bowen writes in The Heat of the Day (1949): Daylight moves round the walls; night rings the changes of its intensity; everything is on its way to somewhere else - there is the presence of movement, that third presence, however still, however unheeding in their trance two may try to stay.