My favorite readers❤ Hello everyone! Today I want to advise you the work of the author E. Wharton "WRITING A WAR STORY". I wrote a review and I will be happy if you like it)

"Writing War Story" is a comedy or Wharton pokes fun at wartime relief efforts, depicting a woman writer trying to come up with a story fit for a soldier magazine.

     Edith Wharton—the American novelist who joined France’s WWI effort . During the outbreak of war in 1914, while many of her friends were fleeing France, Edith Wharton remained in Paris and immediately threw her energy behind various war relief efforts. In the first two years of the First World War, she was so busy that she wrote practically nothing. In June 1915, she wrote to her publisher Charles Scribner, almost in despair about her publication schedule. She said that “I had such an unexpected opportunity to see the events on the front that you might want to collect the articles (I guess there will be five) in a small volume, which will be published in the fall.” In a letter to her publisher mentioned above, Wharton also suggested writing "four or five short stories, not exactly military, but on topics suggested by the war."

     «Writing a War Story» Edith Wharton (1862–1937).  From  Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1911–1937. The selection of "Writing Military Story " presented here is a comedy. It was all about the comic tone. All her previous works that I read, several novels and stories were serious or tragic. The plot is interesting. Ivy Spang has published, admittedly, a book of poetry asking for a short story in the new Man in Arms magazine for recovering soldiers. She agrees and, having received a leave of absence from her volunteer work, “once a week pouring tea to the soldiers in the hospital,” she goes “to a quiet corner of Brittany”, because “no matter how devoted she was to her patients, the tea she poured for them could suffer from her preoccupation with new work. "She tries to find" Inspiration ", but, unfortunately, the pretentious and condescending review of the editor of" Zigzag "on her published collection of poems. She says that" nowadays people do not bother with plots "and that" the topic - nothing. ”In the end, desperate, she accepts the assistant's offer to use in one of the“ stories. ”They agreed that Ivy would take the main story, but add her own literary“ treatment ”...

       There is a good example of irony in the book. One of the things I liked the most about this story was its satire on literary pretensions, and how easy it is for an insecure writer to be confused by the wrong praise, like Ivy from Mr. Zigzag!

       It doesn't matter how passionate about literature or military literature you are. I am sure you will like this book and this is the author.