Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 Nobel 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 Andr Gide Albert Camus and Andr 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 through the eyes of a retired army officer. Yet through Maumort's series of recollections it becomes a morality tale that questions 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 pages from journals and correspondence. To the 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 books creating a blend of intellectual history family drama and biography that will appeal to scholars students and general readers alike.
Title: Roger Martin Du Gard And Maumort The Nobel Laureate And His Unfinished Creation
Author(s): Martin Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Barcode: 9780875807492
Pages: 234 Pages
Publication Date: 5/15/2017
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Category: Biography: Literary