Lettres de Henri Barbusse à sa femme, 1914-1917

Par Henri Barbusse

Extrait : "Chère Fifille, Je viens de passer devant le Conseil de révision qui m'a examiné et jugé bon pour le service. Aussi n'ai-je rien de plus pressé, en sortant de cette cérémonie — je suis resté trois heures debout à attendre ! — que de m'installer au café, place de l'Alma, et à la lueur d'un Dubonnet à l'eau, de mettre la main à la plume pour vous faire assavoir la chose."

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Ligaran
• Date de sortie: 26 janv. 2015
• ISBN: 9782335002126

Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) was a novelist and member of the French Communist Party. Born in Asnières-sur-Seine, he moved to Paris at 16. There, he published his first book of poems, Pleureuses (1895) and embarked on a career as a novelist and biographer. In 1914, at the age of 41, Barbusse enlisted in the French Army to serve in the First World War, for which he would earn the Croix de guerre. His novel Under Fire (1916) was inspired by his experiences in the war, which scarred him and influenced his decision to become a pacifist. In 1918, he moved to Moscow, where he joined the Bolshevik Party and married a Russian woman. Barbusse briefly returned to France, joining the French Communist Party in 1923, before moving back to Russia to work as a writer whose purpose was to support Bolshevism, illuminate the dangers of capitalism, and inspire revolutionary movements worldwide. In addition to his writing, Barbusse took part in the World Committee Against War and Fascism and the International Youth Congress, as well as worked as an editor for Monde, Progrès Civique, and L’Humanité. His final work was a biography of Joseph Stalin, which appeared in 1936 after his death from pneumonia in Moscow. Buried in Paris, his funeral was attended by a half million mourners. Among his many friends and colleagues were Egon Kisch, Albert Einstein, and Romain Rolland.