The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

de Stephen Crane (auteur), Richard Fusco (introduction), Richard Fusco (introduction et notes)

Maison d'édition : Barnes & Noble Classics

juin 2009

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Young Henry Fleming dreams of finding glory and honor as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Yet he also harbors a hidden fear about how he may react when the horror and bloodshed of battle begin. Fighting the enemy without and the terror within, Fleming must prove himself and find his own meaning of valor.

Unbelievable as it may seem, Stephen Crane had never been a member of any army nor had taken part in any battle when he wrote The Red Badge of Courage. But upon its publication in 1895, when Crane was only twenty-four, Red Badge was heralded as a new kind of war novel, marked by astonishing insight into the true psychology of men under fire. Along with the seminal short stories included in this volume—“The Open Boat,” “The Veteran,” and “The Men in the Storm”—The Red Badge of Courage unleashed Crane’s deeply influential impressionistic style.

Richard Fusco has been an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia since 1997. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and in short-story narrative theory, he has published on a variety of American, British, and Continental literary figures.

Auteur

Stephen Crane (auteur)

Quatorzième enfant d'un pasteur méthodiste, Stephen Crane est né en 1871 à Newark. Il publie ses premières nouvelles à 20 ans – il en écrira plus de deux cents. Jeune reporter, il explore les bas-fonds de New York et en tire un court roman, Maggie, fille des rues (1893). Mais c'est L'Insigne rouge du courage (1895), récit antihéroïque d'un épisode de la guerre civile, qui fait sa brusque renommée. En 1899 paraissent son second recueil de poésie, War is Kind , ainsi que son dernier roman, Active Service , inspiré de son activité de correspondant pendant les guerres gréco-turque (1897) et hispano-américaine (1898). Il meurt de tuberculose avant trente ans, en 1900, dans un sanatorium allemand. Henry James le tenait pour " un immense génie " et H. G. Wells le qualifiera en 1915 de " meilleur écrivain de langue anglaise des cinquante dernières années ".