Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1966. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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Neither a great man nor a great writer, Henri Barbusse aspired to greatness in the sincerity of his convictions, the ambition of his experiments, the constancy of his commitment. A youthful revolt against convention, the impact of the Dreyfus affair, the traumatic experience of trench warfare in the First World War left Barbusse a disillusioned pacifist and a social rebel. The inadequacies of the Allied peace settlement and the example of the successful revolution in Russia led him to espouse the Communist cause as the only movement adhering in deed as well as word to goals of social equity and peace. As critic of capitalist injustice and imperialist adventure, as a leader of the anti-Fascist movement, as theorist of proletarian literature, as experimental artist, he remained loyal to that cause for the rest of his life. An early prototype of the committed intellectual, Barbusse attempted to reconcile his aesthetic principles and moral values with the exigencies of political activism.

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