by Roger Martin du Gard · Alianza Editorial. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420614533
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«Jean Barois» is the novel by Roger Martin du Gard, published by Alianza Editorial in 1973 in paperback (390 pages, in Spanish).
Jean Barois, a French intellectual of the late nineteenth century, embodies the conflict between scientific mentality and religious faith as France is divided by the Dreyfus affair. Martin du Gard builds the novel with dialogues and theatrical stage directions, diaries, letters, newspaper reports and forensic reports, to portray the ideological climate of the period and anticipate the techniques of the great cycle «Les Thibault».
Originally published in 1913; this edition is from 1973, in the Libro de bolsillo collection (no. 453), with a translation by Ricardo Anaya. Roger Martin du Gard won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937.
It will interest readers of French fiction from the turn of the century and those who want to discover the work that precedes «Les Thibault» by Roger Martin du Gard.
Roger Martin du Gard was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.
