85 - Timothy Findley's The Wars

A Cultural History of Canada

In which two tired & sick boys try to talk coherently about Timothy Findley's major literary achievement: a reckoning with the reality of World War One in his seminal 1977 work The Wars. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: [e-mail]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further Reading

• Brydon, Diana. “‘It could not be told’: making meaning in Timothy Findley’s The Wars,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 21, no. 2, 1986.
• Findley, Timothy. The Wars, Penguin Modern Classics, 1977.
• McKay, Ian, and Jamie Swift. The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War, 2016.
• Novak, Dagmar. Dubious Glory: The Two World Wars and the Canadian Novel, New York: P. Lang, 2000.