Abstract
Timothy Findley has shown a deep concern for the most outstanding historical events of the 20th century, seen from the point of view of a Canadian citizen with a remarkable European vocation. Two of his best known novels are The Wars and Famous Last Words. The first one depicts the spiritual nightmare undergone by a Canadian lieutenant during World War I. The technique used for Famous Last Words is completely different and the view of the world at war refers to the period 1940-1945. This other novel depicts the activities of historical characters, besides fictitious ones. We have never felt the presence of evil so disturbing as with this extravagant tale that sounds like "the truth," because the memory of the events is still so vivid that it will outlive several generations of human beings.
Highlights
Timothy Findley has shown a deep concern for the most outstanding historical events of the 20th century, seen from the point of view of a Canadian citizen with a remarkable European vocation
Due to the limited extensión of this paper, we are going to concéntrate our attention on his narrative work and more precisely on two of his best known novéis: The Wars and Famous Last Words
The Butterfly Plague (1969) brings into focus other characteristics among them the tendency to transíate the devices that the cinema has popularized into narrative technique
Summary
Timothy Findley has shown a deep concern for the most outstanding historical events of the 20th century, seen from the point of view of a Canadian citizen with a remarkable European vocation. Fragment two starts with these words: "You begin at the archives with photographs." That means that the narrator is going to use oíd family snapshots and letters and recorded interviews with eye witnesses in order to gather all the facts.
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