Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation
Benjamin Franklin Martin
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 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 through ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875807492
SKU
V9780875807492
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About Benjamin Franklin Martin
Benjamin Franklin Martin is the Katheryn J., Lewis C., and Benjamin Price Professor of History at Louisiana State University. He is the author of six previous books, among them, The Hypocrisy of Justice in the Belle Epoque and Years of Plenty, Years of Want: France and the Legacy of the Great War (NIU Press, 2013). He has been a consulting ... Read more
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In this rigorously researched and well-written volume, Benjamin Franklin Martin sheds light on the life and creative genius of Roger Martin du Gard, a figure who, despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, has become somewhat marginalized in French literary history.
French History
Benjamin Franklin Martin's literary biography of Roger Martin du Gard, who won the ... Read more
French History
Benjamin Franklin Martin's literary biography of Roger Martin du Gard, who won the ... Read more