Good-Bye to All That An Autobiography
Good-Bye to All That An Autobiography by Robert Graves is a poignant memoir that delves into the author’s experiences during the First World War. Published by Penguin Books in 2014, this edition restores the original text, presenting a raw and emotionally truthful account from a young man grappling with the realities of trench warfare. Spanning 474 pages, the book offers insights into the disillusionment and complexities faced by soldiers, challenging notions of patriotism and national identity.
Readers will find a vivid portrayal of the war’s impact on personal and collective consciousness, as Graves reflects on the absurdities and horrors of conflict. The memoir navigates themes of biography and personal memoirs, while also touching on literary criticism and historical context. This edition invites readers to engage with Graves’s candid self-portrait, revealing the emotional landscape of a soldier’s life during one of history’s most tumultuous periods.
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“There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing.”
This is the original version of Robert Graves’s intense memoir of the First World War, restoring this raw, emotionally truthful, darkly comic work to the way it was first written, by a young man still reeling from the trenches.
‘We see the dark heart of the book even more clearly, and hear it beating even more loudly, in this original edition than we do in the comparatively careful and considered terms of the later one’ Andrew Motion
‘One of the most candid self-portraits, warts and all, ever painted’ TLS
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