Henri Barbusse

1873–1935

1 standalone book

Henri Barbusse 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 later became 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. Barbusse is considered one of the important French writers of 1910–1939 who mingled the war memories with moral and political meditations.

Born

1873