War Narratives

Caesar's Column, Red Calvary, and Man's Fate, provide the reader three distinct narratives characterizing the war. Babel's journalistic narrative; Donnelly's "manifesto" narrative; and thus far in my reading, Malraux's psychological narrative. I will begin with Malraux, because the central character, Ch'en Ta Erh is an intriguing and fragmented character, and for now, immediate in thought. (To be continued).