Suffering in the Life and Works of Georges Duhamel ...

Suffering in the Life and Works of Georges Duhamel ... PDF Author: John Douglas Baird
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Suffering in the Life and Works of Georges Duhamel ...

Suffering in the Life and Works of Georges Duhamel ... PDF Author: John Douglas Baird
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Pages : 278

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An Introduction to the Works of Georges Duhamel

An Introduction to the Works of Georges Duhamel PDF Author: Henry Greenberg
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Pamphlets by and about Georges Duhamel

Pamphlets by and about Georges Duhamel PDF Author: Georges Duhamel
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Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 178

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The New Book of Martyrs

The New Book of Martyrs PDF Author: Georges Duhamel
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Languages : en
Pages : 111

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The New Book of Martyrs is a military memoir by Georges Duhamel. It portrays the horrors of WWI from the perspective of a military surgeon. Excerpt: "Coughing, spitting, looking about with wide, agonised eyes in search of elusive breath, having no hands to scratch oneself with, being unable to eat unaided, and further, never having the smallest desire to eat—could this be called living? And yet Tricot never gave in. He waged his own war with the divine patience of a man who had waged the great world war, and who knows that victory will not come right away."

Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities

Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities PDF Author: Donald Bean Gilchrist
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Languages : en
Pages : 628

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The Heart's Domain

The Heart's Domain PDF Author: Georges Duhamel
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ISBN: 9781505604917
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Pages : 216

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A great soul's adventures among the terrors of pessimism. By the author of "Civilization," to which was awarded the famous Goncourt fiction prize of 1918. Georges Duhamel, poet, philosopher and surgeon, served for four years with a French mobile hospital in the midst of the human wreckage left in the wake of the first world war. * * * * * Georges Duhamel belongs to that comparatively small but very talented group of French writers, of which Henri Barbusse and Romaine Rolland are perhaps the best known exponents. Their common spirit is a sentimental materialism, which is more German than French in origin and character, but which they clothe in a beauty of diction and lucidity of style that is their own native birthright. In consequence, they have done, and are doing, much harm; for in their books the enemy is presented to us in the loved guise of a friend.Denying the immortality of the soul, they see present human happiness as the only good, and present suffering as the only evil. Their powerful pictures of the misery of war are unrelieved by any true perception of the nobility and heroism to which its courageous acceptance has given birth; and their thought emanates an insidious pacifism, like a poisonous gas, that enervates our spirit until we rise above it into the clear clean airs of eternal realities. The Heart's Domain does not deal explicitly with the war, though it was written during it. It is a collection of essays upon what the author would have us consider "the inner life", "the sublime and familiar colloquy that every being pursues with the better part of himself". He turns to this inner domain of the heart, not for explanation of the outer life, or for strength and inspiration with which to meet its duties, but rather as a refuge from the reality of its pain. Set over, thus, against reality, every thought or vision of beauty that he gives us is made, itself, unreal. We move, as in a dream, through a world empty of all solid substance. The exquisite writing, terse and brilliant aphorisms, and wealth of imagery which mark the book, offer no nourishment to mind or heart, but only a cloying sweetness that soon becomes utterly repulsive. There is a tragic poverty in such a heart's domain as this-in such an anemic, psychic counterfeit of the robust and virile reality of the true inner life. But it would be more tragic if it were not so largely willful. On every page it is as though the author said, "On reality I will not feed. I choose to starve. But I shall starve gazing at the fancied flower of the root I will not eat. Come you, and gaze and starve with me." -The Theosophical Quarterly, Volume 17

Georges Duhamel. Cinquième Edition

Georges Duhamel. Cinquième Edition PDF Author: César SANTELLI
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Pages : 167

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Georges Duhamel, 1881-1966. [By various authors. With portraits.].

Georges Duhamel, 1881-1966. [By various authors. With portraits.]. PDF Author: Georges Duhamel
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Pages : 178

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Autographed photograph partial envelope calling card France Georges Duhamel (June 30, 1884 - April 13, 1966), was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit (ISBN 2-7152-1793-5), the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française. During the Second World War, Duhamel's work was banned by the Germans. He showed courage in his opposition to the occupation and the Petainist faction of the Académie française, later receiving public praise from Général de Gaulle. After the war, Duhamel was named president of the Alliance française and returned to public speaking on French culture. He built up numerous schools of the Alliance. Duhamel's health deteriorated from 1960 and he reduced his activities. He died in Valmondois on the 13th April 1966.

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel  PDF Author: Bettina L. Knapp
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Pages : 196

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