Ferdinand's second girlfriend, a violinist named Musyne, who also works entertaining the troops, abandons him during a bombardment of the city. When he begins to resist going back to the front, Lola leaves him. Bardamu realizes how much profit stands to be made during wartime by those who are not actually forced to fight in the trenches. This is when he meets Lola, a pretty American nurse who has come to volunteer. Wounded and traumatized by the war, Bardamu returns to Paris for treatment and is given a military medal. They make plans to escape together, but their efforts fail. Bardamu also realizes he is, in the eyes of his countrymen, something of a coward.įerdinand Bardamu is given a reconnaissance mission, during which he meets a fellow soldier named Robinson, who is looking for a way to desert the army. Bardamu cannot understand why he is supposed to shoot at the Germans, who have never personally harmed him. Once at the front, faced with the horrors and absurdity of war, he quickly loses his enthusiasm. Surrounded by the music of a military parade, a young Frenchman, Ferdinand Bardamu, decides, in a moment of heroism, to enlist in the army and join the fight against the Germans. The novel opens in Paris, near the time of World War I, in 1914.
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