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Pat Barker

Regeneration

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Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young — published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I just don't think our war aims — whatever they may be — and we don't know — justify this level of slaughter.' The poets and soldiers Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are dispatched to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. There, army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating brutalised, shell-shocked men. It is Rivers' job to fix these men and make them ready to fight again. As a witness to the traumas they have endured, can he in all conscience send them back to the horrors of the trenches?
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  • Julie de la Beresfordhas quotedlast year
    Rivers looked round the room, which seemed cold and bleak in spite of the small fire. ‘Do you hear from Owen at all?’

    ‘Constantly. He… er… writes distinctly effusive letters. You know…’ He hesitated. ‘I knew about the hero-worship, but I’m beginning to think it was rather more than that.’

    Rivers watched the firelight flicker on Sassoon’s hair and face. He said, ‘It happens.’

    ‘I just hope I was kind enough.’

    ‘I’m sure you were.’
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    • Nathanielhas quoted4 years ago
      ‘But you’re not a Jew.’

      ‘I am, actually. Or rather my “fathers” were.’

      ‘I didn’t know that.’ Owen contemplated the fact through a haze of burgundy. ‘That’s why you’re called Siegfried?’

      ‘No-o, I’m called Siegfried because my mother liked Wagner. And the only thing I have in common with orthodox Jews is that I do profoundly thank God I was born a man and not a woman. If I were a woman, I’d be called Brünnhilde.’
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      • Nathanielhas quoted4 years ago
        There’s nothing more despicable than using a man’s private life to discredit his views
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