by René Barjavel · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070361694
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«Tarendol» is the novel by René Barjavel, published by Gallimard in paperback in 1972 (503 pages, in French).
The novel is set in 1943 in Milon-des-Tourdres, near Mont Ventoux. Jean Tarendol and Marie meet after a nighttime raid on the school orchard; a failed prank and an anonymous letter lead to Tarendol being reported to the Gestapo. Separated, Jean's flight and studies in Paris clash with the advance of the war.
The book is volume 169 of Gallimard's Folio collection.
For readers of romantic fiction with a wartime backdrop and those interested in 20th-century French literature.
René Barjavel was a French author, journalist and critic who may have been the first to think of the grandfather paradox in time travel. He was born in Nyons, a town in the Drôme department in southeastern France. He is best known as a science fiction author, whose work often involved the fall of civilisation due to technocratic hubris and the madness of war, but who also favoured themes emphasising the durability of love.
