About “In Parenthesis”
In Parenthesis is a literary work by David Jones, first published in England in 1937. Prior to this, Jones was known only as an engraver and painter. The book won the Hawthornden Prize and received praise from writers like W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Based on Jones's experience as an infantryman in the First World War, the book follows the journey of English private John Ball in a mixed English-Welsh regiment. It begins with the regiment's departure from England and ends seven months later with the assault on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme. The work combines lyrical verse and prose, uses extensive allusions, and shifts between formal language, Cockney dialect, and military slang. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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