The Wars by Timothy Findley7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The madness of war, WW I variety and Equus-style-in an evocative but heavy-handedly contrived patchwork of lyrical-deadpan narrative and first-person ""transcripts."" From the detached viewpoint of an unnamed researcher, Canadian Findley reconstructs the horror-legend of young, handsome, animal-loving Robert Ross-a Toronto lieutenant who goes to war already guilty (he blames himself for the recent death of his hydrocephalic sister), with much more guilt and death in store: on the ship to Europe, he has to shoot, clumsily, a sick horse (just as his neurotic mother ordered him to kill his dead sister's rabbits) in England, he sits endlessly by the bedside of a dying comrade at Ypres, he survives being swallowed up in chlorine-drenched mud only to witness the unbelievable slaughter. ![]()
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