Roger Martin Du Gard and Maumort: The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation

By Benjamin Franklin Martin

Book Overview

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. With the expert narration that distinguishes all of his books, Martin creates a blend of intellectual history, family drama, and biography.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501747835
• ISBN13: 9781501747830
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher