6 avr. 1922 - 'The Waste Land' - T.S. Eliot
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seminal modernist text, offers a fragmented vision of a dry sterile land, where men and nature are dead. What prevails is a sense of loss, desolation and the pervasive presence of death - all alluding to the war without mentioning it. That ghostly world is the post-war one, now stripped of values and beliefs. Western civilization is now spiritually dead and waiting for some rebirth and regeneration, evoked through allusions to Christianity ....
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British Literature
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