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its honesty. The protagonist, an officer, is given to frequent introspection; the book conveys the fear, the incompetence of the commanders and of those behind the front, the progressive degradation of spirit. The tension is punctured by devices such as jokes, scenes of de-lousing and amusing characters. Finally, a civilian perspective comes from letters sent by the protagonist's mother, and there is a closing episode dedicated to his devoted aide. The title ("The Dead Girl") refers to a contested plateau.
262:(February 17, 1890 – November 30, 1945) was a Romanian lawyer, politician and novelist. Born in the United States, he was raised in his father's native country from early childhood. There, he took part in World War I as an officer, worked as a lawyer and rose in local politics to become mayor. Missir's wartime experience informed his only novel, the 1937
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termed a "literary instinct": the action is set amidst the events it details, mainly in the present tense, and moves with great speed. The battle scenes follow in a quick succession of short phrases enriched by an eye for detail that is unsparing of the narrator, of his comrades and of the reader in
325:; like his father, he enjoyed spending his free hours working the nearby vineyard they had inherited from a princely official.) He joined the local bar association but did not have very much time to practice law, as World War I was soon underway.
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