‘You can’t murder a people and walk away scot-free.’ In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker explores morality in war
- Written by Jen Webb, Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
Lady Emma Hamilton as Cassandra by George Romney.Wikimedia CommonsThe first volume of Pat Barker’s trilogy of the Trojan conflict starts with an epigraph taken from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain: “All of European literature springs from a fight”.
This reduction of the conventional view of war to a mere “fight”...





