I was dragging this emaciated body that was still such a weight. I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine. His memoir Homage to Catalonia decries the horrors of war, many of which most of us don’t even consider if we have not been in battle. His experiences there informed his later ideas on war and propaganda, which he fictionalized later in his dystopia 1984. Glory of war indeed!Īs a young, idealistic man, George Orwell went to Spain to fight fascism. I think pacifists might find it helpful to illustrate their pamphlets with enlarged photographs of lice. Down the seams of your trousers he lays his glittering white eggs, like tiny grains of rice, which hatch out and breed families of their own at horrible speed. Short of burning all your clothes there is no known way of getting rid of him. The human louse somewhat resembles a tiny lobster, and he lives chiefly in your trousers. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein, among others. His memoir also includes his interactions with other famous expatriates such as F. Though he was a struggling journalist at the time, he describes his experience with delight in the details, as shown in the above excerpt. Example #2Īs I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.Įrnest Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast covers his time as a young man living in Paris in the 1920s. The above excerpt is one of the most famous quotes from the book, and is often taken as Thoreau’s mission statement, in a sense. His project stemmed from his transcendentalist philosophy to experiment with self-sufficiency. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is an account of his time spent living simply in nature by Walden Pond. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Examples of Memoir in Literature Example #1 This could be because of the advent of the internet and the ease with which we are able both to research our own stories and to publish them. Perhaps memoir is most popular as a form in the modern day, however. There are many examples of memoir from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and from the twenty-first century. The popularity of memoirs has risen and fallen over the centuries. There have been examples of memoirs ever since Julius Caesar wrote an account of his experience during the Gallic Wars.
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