Lieutenant-Colonel De Maumort - Hardcover

Gard, Martin Du

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067943397X ISBN 13: 9780679433972

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1999

Synopsis

A soldier contemplates the mysterious paradoxes of human existence as he struggles to resolve a moral dilemma--how to correct an injustice while remaining an uninvolved spectator to the events as they unfold

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Martin du Gard was born on March 23, 1881, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Trained as a paleographer, he turned to fiction in his early twenties, and in 1913 produced his first major work, Jean Barois. In 1920 he embarked on an eight-part family saga, The Thibaults, receiving the Nobel Prize in 1937 for its seventh volume, Summer 1914, a narrative of the tribulations of the Thibault brothers as they face the approach of the First World War. A prolific author who lived in the country and devoted himself almost solely to his vocation, he also wrote several plays, a brilliant novella about incest (Confidence Africaine), a book memorializing his long friendship with André  Gide, and one of the century's great diaries. It was between the German occupation of Fran

From the Inside Flap:

vent: the long-awaited translation of one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction.

Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort is Roger Martin du Gard's magnum opus, the crowning achievement of a career that included the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937.

Written over the final eighteen years of his life and intended to be read only posthumously, this tremendous creation sprang from the writer's unflinching examination of the conundrum of our moral ambivalence: why, knowing what is right, do people do wrong? Martin du Gard's complex response constitutes one of the most devastating critiques of human behavior ever produced.

The author casts his reflections in the form of a memoir written by Bertrand de Maumort, an aristocrat, a soldier, an intellectual -- ostensibly the very flower of European culture at its zenith. Born in 1870, Maumort grows up in a ch&3226;teau where a series of enlightened tutors tend to his education. Later, while prepari

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 067943397X
• ISBN 13: 9780679433972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 816