Winterbourne Saga
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Reading a book from right at the beginning is not an unusual practice. In connection with Aldington's Death of a Hero, this practice must have been avoided. The Hungarian publisher kindly attached a twenty-page biography, which turns out to be a deep analysis of the book five pages later. It's been a while since I had to read a sentence a minimum of three times to understand it. Moreover I do not think that giving a complicated opinion in the reader's mouth right at the beginning of the "war-psychosis" is a good idea. Poor reader may vomit. The effect of this analysis on me was that it forced me to skip it. I hate when directions are given how the work should be considered but successfully I did not read it so I may be able to express a non-influenced opinion.
My literature teacher in high school trained us not to analyse a work from strophe to strophe from chapter to chapter but to look at it as a whole. But since Death of a Hero is a history of a family and a history of an era drawn more or less chronologically, I will ignore this method and examine it parallel to the flow of the story...