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Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist.

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Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse Biography

was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein.The son of a French father and an English mother, Barbusse was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, France in 1873. Although he grew up in a small town, he left for Paris in 1889, at age 16. In 1914, at age 41, he enlisted in the French Army and served against Germany in World War I. Invalided out of the army three times, Barbusse would serve in the war for 17 months, until the end of 1915, when he was permanently moved into a clerical position due to pulmonary damage, exhaustion, and dysentery.[citation needed] Barbusse first came to fame with the publication of his novel Le Feu (translated by William Fitzwater Wray as Under Fire) in 1916, which was based on his experiences during World War I. By this time, Barbusse had become a pacifist, and his writing demonstrated his growing hatred of militarism. Le Feu drew criticism at the time for its harsh naturalism, but won the Prix Goncourt. In January 1918, he left France and moved to Moscow

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Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) was the author of Le Feu (Under Fire), a classic memoir of wartime service in the French Army during the First World War.

Born on 17 May 1873 in Asnières, Barbusse's early career saw him steer a course first as a neo-Symbolist poet, publishing Pleureuses (Mourners) in 1895, and then as a neo-Naturalist novelist, publishing L'Enfer (The Inferno) in 1908.

However Barbusse gained fame - and notoriety - with the publication of Le Feu in 1916 (published as Under Fire in English), in what was one of the earliest memoirs to critique the French rationale for war and to establish a firmly anti-war stance. For all that he had voluntarily enlisted for wartime service in 1914 his memoir emphasised the lamentable suffering and disillusion of the average French soldier. A widespread international success, his book went on to win the Prix Goncourt.

Wounded in action and by now a committed pacifist, Barbusse was formally discharged from the army in 1917.

His subsequent work si

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Barbusse, Henri

By Laurence Campa

Barbusse, Henri

French Writer

Born 17 May 1873 in Asnières, France

Died 30 August 1935 in Moscow, Russia

Summary

Fulfilling the archetype of the war writer, Henri Barbusse is the embodiment of pacifist activism. His book Le Feu (1916) paved the way for a new genre, that of literary testimony. Acclaimed as soon as it was published, it has been considered as a classic of French war literature ever since.

Barbusse during World War I

A journalist, novelist, literary editor for various publishers and chairman of the Société des Gens de lettres, Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) was already a recognized writer when the war broke out. Despite being forty-one years old already and in poor health, he enlisted as a private in order to fight for his convictions. A socialist by temperament, he intended to wage a social war against capitalism and militarism for progress to triumph in Europe. It did not take long before his experiences on the front quickly turned his idealism into a rebellion against warfare and useless sacrifice of human life. At