Talk:Ford Madox Ford
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[edit] Ford & Conrad
One of the things clearly missing from this piece is a discussion of Ford's collaboration with Conrad, and their joint/parallel creation of the unreliable narrator -- a founding element of modern fiction.
Marc Demarest 04:18, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ford with the Royal Welch?
That's part of the problem: there is no outline of Ford's life. Btw the entry on No More Parades says that Ford was an officer with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, which does not sound correct to me. As far as I know Ford was not in service on the western front, but worked in the British military propaganda.--213.140.21.227 19:38, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Actually Ford himself, in his memoir It was the Nightingale, says he was with the Royal Welch Fusiliers (p. 21, Ecco edition). Also the entry of the Royal Welch Fusiliers on the Wikipedia lists Ford among the members. On the other hand it is true that Ford worked for the propaganda, but the two activities may not be incompatible. --213.140.21.227 (talk) 08:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Says Ford in his memoir: "I had been for the whole period of the war on the Western front with my nose so close to the grindstone of affairs that, as soon as I had any leisure, I really thirsted to knoe something about the events of war and the world outside my own three inches on the map." Yet Buitenhuis talks about him in his essay on propaganda in W.W.I. We should check Buitenhuis' essay before settling this issue.--213.140.21.227 (talk) 09:50, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Now the issue of propaganda and participation to the war has been cleared, as you can see in the article. First he wrote war propaganda, then he went to the Flanders fields. I checked on Buitenhuis, and the matter is well documented there. Should I add a footnote?--James.kerans (talk) 10:37, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Chronology
Is it correct that his "Writing Period" includes works published posthumously? It says he wrote through 1971, though he died over 30 year prior to that 24.22.53.24 08:22, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
