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About This Novel
This is unlike any book about the Great War. "Following the Somme" describes the author Jeff Dyer's experience of visiting old battlefields and war memorials, and displays a number of images, videos, poems, and texts related to the war. Jeff Dyer analyzes them and deconstructs them, trying to find clues to how the war is narrated and presented. He found that the collective memory of the war was already being shaped by official discourse before the war even began. Jeff Dyer uses sentences that are sometimes complex and sometimes simple like a long poem, taking readers into the trenches of the past and unraveling the mysteries and rhetorical structures of the memory of the Great War. In his own way, he shows us the various relationships between modern humans and the aftershocks of the Great War, and how we should carefully understand these relationships.
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