On Leave

ISBN-13: 9780141977546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str.

Daniel Anselme

Opis

Deals with the darkest moment of France's post-war history. Full of sympathy and feeling, this book is about the shame and terror felt by men returning home from war.

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Recenzje

In fiction, we usually have to wait until long after the guns fall silent to hear such stories. Yet this precious act of literary reclamation on the part of Penguin Classics reveals a novel with a solar-plexus punch that was written from the dark heart of conflict Boyd Tonkin Independent

O autorze

David Bellos is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature at Princeton University, where he also teaches Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books and articles on nineteenth-century fiction, alongside biographies of three icons of French culture in the twentieth century: Georges Perec, Jacques Tati and Romain Gary. He is also a well-known translator and the author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation. David Bellos was recently awarded the rank of officier in the Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture.