Looking for international (women) writers of peace literature? Here is a terrific, extensive resource link about (literary) peace and anti-war writings: https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/women-writers-on-peace-and-war/ Bertha von Suttner is represented by 11 selections from her extensive oeuvre. There are also many texts by male authors. An introductory note by the compiler is at https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/about/
This year (2021) sees the 150th anniversary of one of the most famous and gruesome anti-war paintings of all time, The Apotheosis of War by the Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin, a friend of Bertha von Suttner. Reproductions belong in every museum of peace and war. For the 10th conference of the International Network of Museums … Lire la suite
Bertha von Suttner’s famous anti-war novel, Die Waffen nieder! (1889), was a bestseller that was translated at the time in most European languages. However, surprisingly, it took ten years before a French edition, Bas les armes!, was published (1899). Recent French biographers of Bertha von Suttner barely acknowledge the existence of the translation. Moreover, the … Lire la suite
Link to a digitised version of the first French Edition of Lay Down Your Arms « Bas Les Armes! » The digitised copy has a stamp of the Hoover War Library in California (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, now called Hoover Institution. Click here for the digitized copy