by Maurice Genevoix · La Table Ronde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782710368823
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«La mort de près» is the memoir by Maurice Genevoix, published by La Table Ronde in paperback (152 pages, in French).
Maurice Genevoix invites to his writing desk the lieutenant he was in 1914, with his tunic stained with blood and mud, to recount serenely how he met death and what he saw in it. Without fear or tears, the young officer recalls his war and explains what an infantry engagement was like at the start of the First World War.
Published in 2011 in the La petite vermillon collection, with a preface by Michel Bernard. Companion text to 'Ceux de 14', Maurice Genevoix's testimony on the First World War.
For readers of French literature interested in the experience of the First World War and in the work of Maurice Genevoix.
Maurice Genevoix was a French author and WWI veteran who is best known for his book Ceux de 14.
