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Blood dark / Louis Guilloux ; translated from the French by Laura Marris ; introduction by Alice Kaplan.
Van Pelt Library PQ2613.U495 S313 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guilloux, Louis, 1899-1980, author.
- Kaplan, Alice Yaeger, author of introduction.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- New York Review Books Classics
- Standardized Title:
- Sang noir. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- History.
- France.
- France--History--1914-1940--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 514 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Set during World War I, this monumental philosophical novel about human despair inspired Albert Camus' own writing and prefigured the greater existential movement. Louis Guilloux's novel Blood Dark tells the story of a brilliant philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction. Cripure, as his students call him, the name a mocking contraction of The Critique of Pure Reason, despises his colleagues, despairs of his charges, and is at odds with his family. The year is 1917, and the First World War continues its relentless course, with French soldiers not only dying by the tens of thousands but also beginning to desert in protest. Cripure, having seen student after student go to his death, finds himself literally up in arms at the complacent patriotism of his fellow teachers as he challenges one of them to a duel. Unfolding over the course of a single day, Blood Dark describes how Cripure manages to embroil himself in this ridiculous "affair of honor." Guilloux's novel, an important inspiration to the young Albert Camus, is an unflinching attack on the hypocritical pieties of a middle-class society and a tragic portrait of a man at war with the world and himself"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Guilloux, Louis, 1899-1980, author. Blood dark
- ISBN:
- 9781681371450
- 1681371456
- OCLC:
- 967369472
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