#gabriel chevallier

[lionofchaeronea]

Reading the novel Fear by Gabriel Chevallier. Chevallier served in WWI as an infantryman, was wounded, returned to the front, and won the Croix de Guerre. He sat down in 1925 to write a fictionalized account of his experiences but didn't publish it until 1930. Fear is brilliant and ruthless: Chevallier describes in unsparing detail the nightmare of trench warfare, the tedium of camp life in between battles, and the stupidity of the French high command. (When his avatar Jean Dartremont explains why he was passed over for officer school, you won't know whether to laugh or weep.) A true masterpiece.

(Incidentally: this is the third novel about WWI I've read this year, following A Farewell to Arms and All Quiet on the Western Front. Don't ask me how I got onto this topic--I'm not quite sure myself--but it's been illuminating.)

[viecome]

El miedo. Gabriel Chevallier

Los hombres son imbéciles e ignorantes. De ahí les viene su miseria, se creen lo que les cuentan…Eligen jefes y amos sin juzgarlos, con un gusto funesto por la esclavitud. Es lo que hace posible los ejercitos y las guerras.Mueren víctimas de su estúpida docilidad Gabriel Chevallier (El miedo).

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[nattravn-art]

A Fine Team Of dramatic disasters Paranormal Investigators

You ever see a meme that represent your OCs so good you have to draw it? This one was perfect for this squad!

These disasters are my & @thecrimsonvalley-creates's Call of Cthulhu RPG OCs. The universe expanded in a way we didn't expect and They. Are. Thriving.

From left to right:

Lizbeth: a cheerful and peppy wildcard who enjoys throwing one too much molotov cocktails and hates paperwork with a passion.

Beatrice: a semi-functioning grump, constantly tired because she's awoken by spirits and entities at odd hours of the night.

And Gabriel: as much as a wildcard as Lizzy, a snarkass and kind of a dick, who has fucked himself both in and out of situations.

[less-ismore]

Je vis comme une bête, une bête qui a faim, puis qui est fatiguée. Jamais je ne me suis senti si abruti, si vide de pensée, et je comprends que l’accablement physique, qui ne laisse pas aux êtres le temps de réfléchir, qui les réduit à ne plus éprouver que des besoins élémentaires, soit un sûr moyen de domination. Je comprends que les esclaves se soumettent si aisément, car il ne leur reste plus de forces disponibles pour la révolte, ni l’imagination pour la concevoir, ni l’énergie pour la concerter. Je comprends cette sagesse des oppresseurs, qui retirent à ceux qu’ils exploitent l’usage de leur cerveau, en les courbant sous des tâches qui épuisent. Je me sens parfois au bord de cet envoûtement que donnent la lassitude et la monotonie, au bord de cette passivité animale qui accepte tout, au bord de la soumission qui est la destruction de l’individu.

Gabriel Chevallier, La peur, 1930.

[tomesofthetrade]

“There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy; the farcical is but a cloak for coming catastrophe.”

- Clochemerle

[thefoxhuntingman]

It could not be denied that to perform such an act of cowardice requires considerable courage and terrible despair. Despair, in the most punishing sectors, can provoke the most absurd decisions; men have assured me that at Verdun soldiers killed themselves for fear of suffering and an agonising death. It is also whispered that at F— some veterans from the Bat d’Af wounded their own comrades. They polished shell shrapnel to make it look like new, put it in a cartridge from which they had removed the bullet and then fired it into the person’s leg at a spot agreed on in advance. They charged for it, and made a bit of money out of this dirty work. I have certainly heard soldiers expressing the wish to have a limb amputated to escape the front line. In general, the rougher, simpler men fear death but can bear pain and mutilation. Whereas the more sensitive ones are less afraid of death itself than the forms it takes here, of the agony and suffering that precedes it.

Gabriel Chevallier, Fear: A Novel of World War I (La Peur)

(translated by Imrie Malcolm)

[moviesteve]

Clochemerle https://bit.ly/3p2kSJx Broadcast in 1972, the same year it was agreed that the UK would join the European Common Market, Clochemerle caused a stir when it was first shown. That’s because this charming show was all about a urinal. This pissoir (the word is never used) is erected in a small French village by the progressive mayor … Read more

[thotclaws]

“Most rules lie, yet lies are less shocking, less corrosive than the chosen, cultivated ignorance that Chevallier addresses here. This ignorance denies the reality of anything which provokes pity. It is an error to think of such war leaders or, today, economic strategists, as pitiless. They are abject. This is what we have to learn and to act upon. They are abject.”

Gabriel Chevallier, Fear; A Novel of World War I (Quote from Roger Waters The Wall, 2015)