I'm reading
The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl, about concepts of generation in various European countries pre- and post-war. Given how several of us here found Vera unlikable, I thought this comment interesting:
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Testament of Youth was too self-indulgent, too self-pitying, and too lacking in self-irony to be good literature.
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I think it's an important and affecting book (as does Wohl) but I think he put his finger on something. To the extent this was an expression of her personality, it makes it easier to see why her Somerville classmates were tired of her woe and why we didn't entirely warm to her.