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The powerful story of a soldier who lost his memory and identity, and of a people in mourning who found in him their own missing men In February 1918, a derelict soldier was discovered wandering the railway station in Lyon, France. With no memory of his name or past, no identifying possessions, marks, or documents, the soldier-given the name Anthelme Mangin-was sent to an asylum for the insane. When, after the Great War ended, the authorities placed the soldier's image in advertisements to locate his family, hundreds of "relatives" claimed him-as their father, son, husband, or brother who had failed to return from the front. Marshaling a vast array of original material, from letters and newspaper articles to accounts of battlefield deaths, hospital reports, and police files, French historian Jean-Yves Le Naour meticulously re-creates the long-forgotten story of the single soldier who came to stand for a lost generation. With humane sympathy and the skill of a novelist, Le Naour recounts the twenty-year court battles waged by the families competing to take the amnesiac soldier home. In the process, he portrays not just the fate of one individual but the rank and file's experience in the trenches and an entire nation's great and inconsolable grief following a war that consumed the lives of one million men. Dramatic, taut, and powerfully relevant to our own times, this heartrending history depicts the pain and turmoil of a society that, without bodies to bury, is caught between holding on and letting go.… (más)
Interesting, but a bit tedious at times. One gets the impression that this would have made a much better academic paper than an entire book; many chapters are devoted to an in-depth examination of the trials surrounding the amnesiac. The really important stuff comes much earlier on, when Le Naour discusses postwar french culture and the proofs of grief ubiquitous in it. The amnesiac is interesting, and it is great to finally see how his story ends, but there is a lot of fluff here. All in all an interesting, quick read. ( )
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Introduction
« Qu'on me pardonne, au moment où j'entreprends ce récit, les vieilles douleurs que je vais raviver, les faux espoirs que je vais susciter. Mais c'est l'histoire la plus belle, la plus cruelle de la guerre que j'ai à raconter, celle qui tient en elle le symbole le plus pur et le plus inhumain1. » C'est par ces mots que Paul Bringuier inaugure, dans L'Intransigeant, son feuilleton de dix articles consacrés au soldat amnésique Anthelme Mangin. Celui que la presse a baptisé le « soldat inconnu vivant » a soi-disant été découvert errant sur les quais de la gare de Lyon-Brotteaux, le 1er février 1918, après le passage d'un convoi de rapatriés. [...]
Chapitre premier Le soldat sans armistice (1918-1922)
Anthelme Mangin est né en 1918, sur les quais d'une gare de triage. L'homme qu'il était avant la déclaration de guerre est mort le jour où il a perdu la raison et son identité, sur le champ de bataille ou dans le camp de captivité allemand dans lequel il fut retenu jusqu'en janvier 1918 avant d'être rapatrié pour des raisons sanitaires évidentes. [...]
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The powerful story of a soldier who lost his memory and identity, and of a people in mourning who found in him their own missing men In February 1918, a derelict soldier was discovered wandering the railway station in Lyon, France. With no memory of his name or past, no identifying possessions, marks, or documents, the soldier-given the name Anthelme Mangin-was sent to an asylum for the insane. When, after the Great War ended, the authorities placed the soldier's image in advertisements to locate his family, hundreds of "relatives" claimed him-as their father, son, husband, or brother who had failed to return from the front. Marshaling a vast array of original material, from letters and newspaper articles to accounts of battlefield deaths, hospital reports, and police files, French historian Jean-Yves Le Naour meticulously re-creates the long-forgotten story of the single soldier who came to stand for a lost generation. With humane sympathy and the skill of a novelist, Le Naour recounts the twenty-year court battles waged by the families competing to take the amnesiac soldier home. In the process, he portrays not just the fate of one individual but the rank and file's experience in the trenches and an entire nation's great and inconsolable grief following a war that consumed the lives of one million men. Dramatic, taut, and powerfully relevant to our own times, this heartrending history depicts the pain and turmoil of a society that, without bodies to bury, is caught between holding on and letting go.
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