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| | French writers of the Great War |
 | | Although Henri Barbusse's Le Feu (Prix Goncourt 1916), Roland Dorgeles' Les Croix de bois, (Prix Fémina 1919), and Georges Duhamel's La Vie des Martyres, 1917 and Civilisation 1914-1917 (Prix Goncourt 1918) remain the best-known examples of French writing on the Great War, many other writers published significant novels, poetry, and plays during the period 1914-1918. |
 | | For others, like Charles Vildrac and Henri Guilbeaux, the war provided the catalyst for the expansion of a humanist-based aesthetic devoted to the unification of life and art and the blending of the real and ideal. |
 | | Inspired by a love of Hugo, Wagner, Tolstoy, and Whitman and fueled by the activities of contemporary socialists and anarchists, an entire generation of young creative people defined beauty as the symbiosis of the physical and spiritual presence of the community of humankind. |
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