HENRI BARBUSSE.
I read with interest Donald Cowie's article on the life of Henri Barbuese, but cannot understand why he dismissed in so few words the crowning achievements of a great writer and revolutionary. After his service in the war llarbusse followed up the revolution in thought by organising that thought into a material instrument for the 'destruction of the causes of imperialist war. The World Movement against War and Fascism, founded by him in Paris in 1931, is now active in every country of the world. Surely in these times this is worthy of note. Ihe claim that his works lessened in value as propaganda superseded fiction is rather amusing. Every sincere artist of to-day realises ho can no longer lie merely an enforced spectator. To Barbusse art was only a means—one of the highest means—of grappling with and assimilating reality, for the organisation of a social conscience, in the creation of a new world. In this lies his greatness and his immortality. C. M. BARTON.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 227, 25 September 1935, Page 21
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