Word: raspeguy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field (or in the prison camp). For his characters, the indoctrination and intellectual forced-feeding to which their Viet captors subject them is kin of ordeal by fire, which burns away all illusions, and leaves them damned with the urgent, but incommunicable vision of truth. So, for example, Colonel Raspeguy (in a sense, the novel's central character), during his home leave (in a sense, the central part of the novel), when asked to describe his experiences, reflects...
...novel, this reconstruction takes the modest form of forming a guerilla army under Raspeguy to fight the Algerian rebels. Applying what they learned from the Communist Viets, with a violence inspired by disgust at the Metropolitan France where they spent their leaves, they succeed in stemming the F.L.N. tide. The novel ends on this optimistic note, but before the Fifth Republic and the institution of the Gaullist liberation policy...
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