Barbusse

American  

[bar-bys] / barˈbüs /

noun

1. Henri 1873?–1935, French journalist and author.

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Barbusse British  

/ barbys /

noun

1. Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1873–1935, French novelist and poet. His novels include L'Enfer (1908) and Le Feu (1916), reflecting the horror of World War I

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Example Sentences

It belongs to that tense-looking but really very loose type of writing, which has been popularized by many second-raters — Barbusse, Céline and so forth.

From New York Times

Of course, French and German combatants also brought out accounts of their analogous experiences, notably Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Henri Barbusse’s anecdotal but grim “Under Fire” and Ernst Jünger’s Homeric paean to martial valor, “Storm of Steel.”

From Washington Post

That text incorporates excerpts from “All Quiet on the Western Front” and from another war novel, Henri Barbusse’s “Under Fire,” alongside soldiers’ letters and eyewitness testimonies, in English, Flemish, French, and German.

From The New Yorker

After a brief account of the outbreak of war by the French novelist Henri Barbusse, “No Man’s Land” immediately moves to Mulk Raj Anand’s “Marseille,” about Indian sepoys under the command of the British crown, and captures the colonial soldiers’ utter confusion as to where they are and what they are fighting for.

From New York Times

Elsewhere he has praised Ludwig Renn and Henri Barbusse, but he has never, to my knowledge, mentioned Jones.

From The Guardian