The language of suffered war (1914-1938)

The study examines poems written by French soldiers of the Grande Guerre, which express the extreme experience of the trench warfare and function as a medium of accusation. In addition to canonised works such as Apollinaire`s, Cocteau`s and Drieu La Rochelle`s, little-known and forgotten texts are also examined and made accessible in the appendix. The focus lies on the question of the characteristics and possibilities of poetry as testimonial literature, questions about poetry as an expression of inner processes of change, the question of the representability of unresolved, traumatic experiences and memories as well as questions about the specific possibilities of lyrical representation of war experiences.

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