PAT BARKER'S "REGENERATION" IN THE LIGHT OF THE LITERARY TRADITION OF THE XXTH CENTURY
The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of the works belong to the English war prose about the Great War. Despite the fact that in many European literatures the First World War is no longer a central artistic image (due to the shift of focus to the Second World War), in the UK the attention to the preservation of the memory of the Great War is still maintained. The novel «Regeneration» by P. Barker is an example of a modern interpretation of this topic. The writer does not abandon the existing tradition in the English literature («Death of a Hero» by R. Aldington) and even more clearly shows hypocrisy of the British society. As once the central character of the novel «Death of a Hero» by R. Aldington, the Barker's hero refuses to adapt socially to what is happening at the front. Experiencing the English snobbery because of his origin, watching the death of his colleagues, he is aware of the lies and propaganda from the state and begins to consider his participation in the war as a kind of springboard for further successful life after it.