by Erskine Caldwell · Belfond · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714415363
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«Le Bâtard» is the novel by Erskine Caldwell, published by Belfond in paperback (151 pages, in French).
The novel follows Gene, a young man whose childhood is marked by a tragic origin and a hostile environment; without knowing his father, he must make his way in a difficult milieu. Through his story, Caldwell portrays the tension between desire, violence and survival, in a starkly raw social portrait.
French edition of 1982, included in the Littératures étrangères collection, with translation by J. P. Turberque.
For readers of twentieth-century foreign literature interested in social narrative and characters marked by adversity.
Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), won him critical acclaim.
