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DEATH OF A HERO?Richard Aldington ?Covici, Friede...
...Story. Author Aldington lets his audience know at once, as they did at Greek tragedies, that the protagonist is to die at the end. The book begins with the death of its hero. On Nov. 4, 1918, Captain George Winterbourne, exposing himself unnecessarily to heavy machine gun fire, was instantly killed. Attempting to account for that last moment, the rest of the book depicts the life of the hero, of his parents and grandparents...
...protest that it must be overdone. The tone of these chapters is like one of George's own remarks, thus reported: " 'Now, look at these simian bipeds,' George pursued, pointing to an inoffensive pair of lovers . . . 'more foul, more deadly, more incestuously blood-lustful . . .!' " Throughout the early chapters Author Aldington seems to be pointing at inoffensive people and gratuitously calling them incestuous. There may be reason for dissecting a diseased corpse; there can be none for clubbing...
...Author. This is Richard Aldington's first novel. He is known for criticism, translations and poems. His wife, Hilda Doolittle Aldington, is the Imagist poet...
Translated from the Old French of Antoine de la Sale (Fifteenth Century) by Richard Aldington...