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Confidence Africaine

Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1937, Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958) described himself as "an independent writer who has escaped the fascination of partisan ideologies, an investigator as objective as is humanly possible, as well as a novelist striving to express the tragic quality of individual lives." His work is in the tradition of the nineteenth century realists and naturalists. His reputation as a major writer was established in 1913 with Jean Barois, and confirmed by Les Thibaults, a roman fleuve whose eight parts appeared over the years 1922-1940.

They are uncommon skills that Martin du Gard displays in Confidence Africaine, where the difficult theme of incest — so apt to elude the author's control, in the reader so apt to provoke confused responses — is managed with quiet mastery and seeming effortlessness.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 43
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780910395083
  • Genres
  • fiction, france
  • Release date
  • 1983