»As one might expect from the title, this book will hardly be criticized for being undertheorized. For the greater part of the analysis, the polarity indicated in the subtitle is of the most relevance. Expressed simply, the book explores the antithesis between, on the one hand, the barely describable experience of the World War I battlefield and, on the other, the efforts by authors and characters to give sense to that experience by placing it in a historical framework… The result is a book that may be of great interest to readers concerned with aesthetic theory.«
David Pugh, Monatshefte 4/2020, 739