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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...

RetranchA(c)s dans une maison du Jura, Milan, dA(c)corateur parisien, et sa femme Robert, jadis si libertins, si souverains, se haAssent de s'Aatre trop aimA(c)s. Leurs excA]s les ont enchaAnes. Entre l'alcool et les visites d'HA(c)lA]ne, la jeune institutrice du village, les jours s'A(c)gouttent comme du poison. Roberte cherche A pervertir HA(c)lA]ne; HA(c)lA]ne va aimer Milan: Milan ne veut plus aimer. Il a tuA(c) la passion en lui et veut renaA(R)tre, seul et grand. Ce roman, l'auteur le voulait cruel, horrible et plein de foi quand mAame dans le bonheur...

This book should be of interest to students of French literature/studies.

Includes the full French text. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.