A immensely important literary achievement

Winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937

2000 ~ 1st Edition, 1st Printing w/ $35.00 on DJ

Knopf, 2000. VG+, minor shelf wear and rubbing. Clean, bright and tight. Thick with rough cut pages. Remainder dot. A quality collectible copy!

 
Roger Martin du Gard (March 23, 1881- August 22, 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details. For his concern with documentation and with the relationship of social reality to individual development, he has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His major work was Les Thibault, a roman fleuve about the Thibault family, originally published as a series of eight novels. The story follows the fortunes of the two Thibault brothers, Antoine and Jacques, from their prosperous bourgeois upbringing, through the First World War, to their deaths. He also wrote a novel, Jean Barois, set in the historical context of the Dreyfus Affair.

During the Second World war he resided in Nice, where he prepared a novel, which remained unfinished (Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort); an English-language translation of this unfinished novel was published in 2000.