The law / A novel by Roger Vailland ; translated from the French by Peter Wiles ; with a new preface by Jonathan Keates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vailland, Roger.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Loi. English

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 255 pages, 18 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Eland ; New York : Hippocrene Books, 1985.

Summary:

Now back in print, ROGER VAILLAND's atmospheric 1957 novel won the Prix Goncourt, and the Knopf edition was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. The grotesque game of the Law, played in the taverns of southern Italy, is but a shadow of an even fiercer attitude to life--a potent metaphor for a vigorously hierarchical view of existence which rules over the "mezzogiorno, the noonday culture of southern Italy. In this novel we are not asked to pardon or condemn the passion of Donna Lucrezia, the assured self-centeredness of the learned aristocrat Don Cesare or even the sinister desires of Matteo Brigante, the controlling godfather.

Notes:

Translation of: La Loi.

"First issued in this paperback edition 1985"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

0907871119

9780907871118

OCLC:

903149653