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This article investigates the representation of war in terms of uselessness and waste in the fiction of Patrick White, with a particular emphasis on the short story “After Alep”, written in 1945 when the writer was enrolled in the RAF as an Intelligence Officer. By analysing the story in the light of White’s approach to the war as to “the most horrifying and wasteful period” of his life (Marr 1992: 493), the article attempts to demonstrate how the narrative devices used by White contribute to demythologize the rhetoric of the war and of war heroes in a way that may be instrumental in conveying a message of peace out of the ultimate sense of futility transmitted by any war.
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Subjects:
- After Alep 1945 single work short story
- Happy Valley : A Novel 1939 single work novel
- The Living and the Dead 1941 single work novel
- Voss : A Novel 1957 single work novel
- Riders in the Chariot 1961 single work novel
- The Vivisector 1970 single work novel
- The Twyborn Affair 1979 single work novel
- The Hanging Garden 1981 single work novel
- The Full Belly 1966 single work short story
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