Ebook: 1914-Goodbye to All That: Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art

Cover; Title Page; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; GOOD VOICE; GOODBYE TO SOME OF THAT; A VISIT TO THE MAGICIAN; TEA AT THE MUSEUM; IN SEARCH OF UNTOLD STORIES; CLARITY; THE COMMUNITY OF SEALED LIPS: SILENCE AND WRITING; COOLIES; FEARING THE NIGHT; WRITING ON THE WALL; About the Publisher; Copyright.;A wide-ranging collection of reflective essays, to mark the centenary of the conflict that changed the world. In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves's ""bitter leave-taking of England"" in which he writes not only of the First World War but the questions it raised: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write. Interpreting this title as broadly and ambiguously as Graves intended, these essays ma.