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The Conscript. Indifferent, flippant, earnest, but all bored, The doctors sit in the glare of electric light. Watching the endless stream of naked white. Bodies of men for whom their hasty award. Means life or death maybe, or the living death. Of mangled limbs, blind eyes, or a darkened brain; And the chairman, as his monocle falls again,
Mar 3, 2011 · Like every ex-conscript, the medical is etched into his memory - it was a comic ritual performed like everything the military did, strictly according to king's regulations. And it ended with the ...
― Themes in Modern African History and Culture: Festschrift for Tekeste Negash “ The Conscript gives the Tigrinya novel its early framing contour, as it shows sophistication and maturity in the depiction of the inner turmoil and real-life characteristics of its characters. It is a novel that grapples with issues of identity, self-agency, war, and the traumatic effects of (de)colonization ...
- Gebreyesus Hailu
Feb 15, 2010 · You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 Author: Émile Erckmann Alexandre Chatrian Release Date: February 15, 2010 [EBook #31288] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ...
The Conscript is set in rural Flanders in Belgium in the early 19th century. After the son of a local notable is conscripted into the Belgian Army, he pays Jan Braems, a poor farmer's boy, to volunteer for military service in his place under the system of remplacement. Braems serves in the Army. He visits a prostitute and contracts venereal ...
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Nov 6, 2013 · The Conscript is a historical novel on the Lybian anticolonial war written by Gebreyesus Hailu in Tigrinya. In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the A...
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