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In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Novel Prize for Literature in 1937, and his works, especially Les Thibault, a multivolume novel, were translated into English and read widely. Today, this close friend of André Gide, Albert Camus, and André Malraux is almost unknown, largely because he left unfinished the long project he began in the 1940s, Lieutenant Colonel de Maumort. Initially, the novel is an account of the French experience during World War II and the German occupation as seen thorugh the eyes of a retired army officer. Yet, through Maumort's series of recollections, it becomes a morality tale that question the values of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European civilization. A fragmentary version of the novel was published in 1983, twenty-five years after its author's death, and an English translation appeared in 1999. Even incomplete, it is a work of haunting brilliance. In this groundbreaking study, Benjamin Franklin Martin recovers the life and times of Roger Martin du Gard and those closest to him. He describes the genius of Martin du Gard's literature and the causes of his decline by analyzing thousands of pagaes from journals and correspondence. The other outside world, the writer and his family were staid representatives of the French bourgeoisie. Behind this veil of secrecy, however, they were passionate and combative, tearing each other apart through words and deeds in clashes over life, love, and faith. Martin interweaves their accounts with the expert narration that distinguishes all of his book, creating a blend of intellectual history, family drama, and biography. -- from dust jacket.
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Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation
2020, Cornell University Press
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Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation
2019, University of Chicago Press
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Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: the nobel laureat and his unfinished creation
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Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation
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