- Summary
- As poetic as it is enlightening this detailed biography of five literary figures is achingly beautiful in its depiction of the disturbing everyday realities of war.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Feigel, Lara.
- Published
- London : Bloomsbury, 2013
- Locale
- England
London
- Contents
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Part I. One Night in the Lives of Five Writers : September 26, 1940
Newsreel
7 p.m. : Blackout
10 p.m. : Fire
1 a.m. : Rescue
6 a.m. : All Clear
Part II. The Blitz : September 1940-May 1941
"War, she thought, was sex"
"Ireland can be dementing"
"How we shall survive this I don't know"
"So much else is on the way to be lost"
Part III. The Lull : June 1941-February 1944
" You are the ultimate of something"
"Can pain and danger exist?"
"Only at night I cry"
"Alas, what hate everywhere"
Part IV. Approaching Victory : June 1944-August 1945
"Droning things, mindlessly making for you"
"A collective intoxication of happiness"
"The days were listless and a flop"
Part V. Surveying the Ruins : Postwar Europe, 1945-9
"The magic Irish light and the soft air"
"Flying, no, leaping, into the centre of the mainland"
"O, maybe we'll live a while in Killala"
"The returning memory of a dream long forgotten"
"The place I really did lose my heart to was Vienna"
Part VI. Mid-century : Middle Age
" We could have been happy for a lifetime"
"Let us neither of us forget ... what reality feels like and eternity is"
"The world my wilderness, its caves my home."
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. One Night in the Lives of Five Writers : September 26, 1940 -- Newsreel -- 7 p.m. : Blackout -- 10 p.m. : Fire -- 1 a.m. : Rescue -- 6 a.m. : All Clear -- Part II. The Blitz : September 1940-May 1941 -- "War, she thought, was sex" -- "Ireland can be dementing" -- "How we shall survive this I don't know" -- "So much else is on the way to be lost" -- Part III. The Lull : June 1941-February 1944 -- " You are the ultimate of something" -- "Can pain and danger exist?" -- "Only at night I cry" -- "Alas, what hate everywhere" -- Part IV. Approaching Victory : June 1944-August 1945 -- "Droning things, mindlessly making for you" -- "A collective intoxication of happiness" -- "The days were listless and a flop" -- Part V. Surveying the Ruins : Postwar Europe, 1945-9 -- "The magic Irish light and the soft air" -- "Flying, no, leaping, into the centre of the mainland" -- "O, maybe we'll live a while in Killala" -- "The returning memory of a dream long forgotten" -- "The place I really did lose my heart to was Vienna" -- Part VI. Mid-century : Middle Age -- " We could have been happy for a lifetime" -- "Let us neither of us forget ... what reality feels like and eternity is" -- "The world my wilderness, its caves my home."
