Reid E Beckett's Explaination of His War Experiences in a Letter to Leila McGee

On the scene, two men were standing in the "monument route". After the buildings and houses once existed, only rubble reminds people a small village 8 km north of Arras. If it is not the title and location provided by Richard, the location of the image can not be determined. Sadly, this scene is not unique The small villages and big cities along the Western Front have been seriously damaged by artillery and artillery. According to the unified design of cameramen, these people are members of a French soldier, an ally allied wearing a light blue coat after successfully attacking Sochi in 1915.

Art sufferings during the First World War Bloody washout of the Battlechendaele campaign played a decisive role for young artists like Paul Nash. In an angry letter to his wife Margaret, he explained that the war is 'in words, no gods, hopeless'. That fear is so great that he does not consider himself an "intriguing and intriguing artist" but is a "user who brings back people who are fighting people who want to sustain the war forever" . Messenger. "From the beginning of the Second World War, we need new and spicy art. To express "real" combat experience, you need to attack visual, olfactory, auditory, taste, and tactile sensations. It demands artists to visualize the sound of grenade explosion, the bad smell of explosives, the metallic taste of blood, and the splashing of human bones, muscles, tissues, skin, hair and fat.

I believe that understanding this handwriting technique has extensive relationship with Beckett's third novel "Watt". In his another letter, Beckett merely wrote it as a movement simply written to kill time between World War II and Parisian occupation, which was written in "spotting", in particular at himself Wat's early critic who deteriorates Wat's appearance seems to have internalized the philosophy of René Descartes, and as he analyzed his experience according to the ruthless Cartesian logic that eventually is debilitating and interesting wrote. It is absurd. Watann seems unable to think, he can only count. One thing in the novel is that Mr. Watt was hired by Mr. Knott and left cooking in the empty room to serve his dinner and then Mr. Knut had already eaten his dinner, I did not eat or had all of this