Overview
A neglected novel of Ford Madox Ford, No Enemy reflects Ford’s postwar experience during the Reconstruction period. Having survived World War I, the protagonist, poet Gringoire, struggles with accepting the loss of friends and his constant fear. Constructed in two equal halves entitled “Four Landscapes” and “Certain Interiors,” the novel weaves the process from external grieving to internal healing and offers a transformed state of place and mind. The novel’s introduction includes recent biographical information on Ford and places the work within its context as autobiographical fiction.Author Biography
Ford Madox Ford was the author of over 60 works: novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and reminiscences. His work includes The Good Soldier, Parade’s End, The Rash Act, and Ladies Whose Bright Eyes. He worked as the editor of the English Review and the Transatlantic Review and collaborated with Joseph Conrad on The Inheritors, Romance, and other works. Ford lived in both France and the United States and died in 1939.
