Henri Barbusse

French author (1873-1935)

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Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) was a French writer, journalist, screenwriter, and biographer associated with the proletarian literature movement. Born in Asnières-sur-Seine, he served in World War I and was a member of the French Communist Party. His notable work includes *Under Fire*. Barbusse received the Prix Goncourt, the Concours général, and the Croix de guerre 1914–1918. He was also a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Barbusse died of pneumonia in Moscow in 1935 and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. His literary output includes works such as *Rusia*, *La lueur dans l'abîme*, and *Lettres de Lénine à sa famille*. He is the subject of quotes regarding war, including the statement, "Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide."

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Born: 1873
Died: 1935
Works: 139

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Rusia
La lueur dans l'abîme
Lettres de Lénine à sa famille
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Coltello Fra I Denti

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1917-07-18
Active to: 2008-02-13

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Total plays: 10

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

2010 Rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: An American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative
· 2010 · cited 7,608x
Local compositions in thermodynamic excess functions for liquid mixtures
· 1968 · cited 6,316x
Type, Density, and Location of Immune Cells Within Human Colorectal Tumors Predict Clinical Outcome
· 2006 · cited 5,494x
The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,770x
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x

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Quotes

“War!Some of the invalids break the silence, and say the word again under their breath, reflecting that this is the greatest happening of the age, and perhaps of all ages. Even on the lucid landscape at which they gaze the news casts something like a vague and somber mirage.”
“Each country whose frontiers are consumed by carnage is seen tearing from its heart ever more warriors of full blood and force. One's eyes follow the flow of these living tributaries to the River of Death. To north and south and west ajar there are battles on every side. Turn where you will, there is war in every corner of that vastness.”
“Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.”
“Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.”
“"Put an end to war?" say the watchers. — "Forbid the Storm!" Cleansed from the passions of party and faction, liberated from prejudice and infatuation and the tyranny of tradition, these watchers on the threshold of another world are vaguely conscious of the simplicity of the present and the yawning possibilities of the future.”
“It's with us only that they make battles. It is we who are the material of war. War is made up of the flesh and the souls of common soldiers only. It is we who make the plains of dead and the rivers of blood, all of us, and each of us is invisible and silent because of the immensity of our numbers. The emptied towns and the villages destroyed, they are a wilderness of our making. Yes, war is all of us, and all of us together.”

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Works in European collections

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Encyclopedic overview

Henri Barbusse ( French: [ɑ̃ʁi baʁbys]; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist novelist; in 1916, he published Under Fire, a novel about World War I based on his experience which is described as one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation movement or as the work which started it; the novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway and Erich Maria Remarque. Barbusse is considered one of the important French writers of 1910–1939 who mingled the war memories with moral and political meditations.

Before World War I, Barbusse was a pacifist, but in 1914, he volunteered for wartime service and was awarded the Croix de guerre; during the war, he was influenced by the Communists and came to the belief that a Revolution against the imperialist governments would be the only quick way to end the war and to deal with militarism and reaction. In years following the war, his work acquired a definite political orientation; he became a member of the French Communist Party and an Anti-Fascist and an anti-war activist. In the 1930s, he supported the Stalinist regime despite having a friendly relationship with Leon Trotsky in the middle of the 1920s and contributed to Joseph Stalin's personality cult by writing his biography which became a 'canonical' text for the French Stalinists but wasn't in line with the glorification of Stalin in the USSR. He died in 1935 and didn't see the events that followed, like the Moscow trials and the Nazi-Soviet pact.

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