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Gabriel Chevallier

    May 3, 1895 – April 6, 1969
    Gabriel Chevallier
    Clochmerle
    Mascarade
    Heldenangst
    Clochemerle
    Fear: A Novel of World War I
    Fear
    • Fear

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      It is 1915. Jean Dartemont is just a young man. He is not a rebel, but neither is he awed by authority and when he's called up and given only the most rudimentary training, he refuses to follow his platoon. Instead, he is sent to Artois, where he experiences the relentless death and violence of the trenches.

      Fear
    • Fear: A Novel of World War I

      • 305 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
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      A NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation A young soldier learns the true meaning of fear amidst the carnage of World War I in this literary masterpiece and “one of the most effective indictments of war ever written” (Wall Street Journal) 1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted “war to end all wars” seems like a war that will never end—whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter. After he is wounded, he returns from the front to discover a world where no one knows or wants to know any of this. Both the public and the authorities go on talking about heroes—and sending more men to their graves. But Jean refuses to keep silent. He will speak the forbidden word. He will tell them about fear. John Berger has called Fear “a book of the utmost urgency and relevance.” A literary masterpiece, it is also an essential and unforgettable reckoning with the terrible war that gave birth to a century of war.

      Fear: A Novel of World War I
    • Clochemerle

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.8(7682)Add rating

      Gabriel Chevallier's delightful novel Clochemerle satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular and religious forces in a small wine-growing village in Beaujolais. The eruption begins when the socialist mayor decides that he wants to leave behind a monument to his administration's achievements.

      Clochemerle
    • Ein Antikriegsroman von 1930, dessen Neuausgabe in Frankreich 2008 hymnisch gefeiert wurde, vergleichbar mit den Werken von Remarque, Céline oder Norman Mailer: Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, den er als Infanterist an der Front verbrachte, beschrieb Gabriel Chevallier seine Erlebnisse in Romanform: Der junge Student Jean Dartemont wird eingezogen und an die Front geschickt, und dort bleibt er vier Jahre lang, unterbrochen nur von einem Lazarettaufenthalt. Monatelang harrt er mit seinen Kameraden in den Schützengräben aus, bedroht von Kugeln, Kälte, Durchfall und grenzenloser Angst. Bei seinem Ersterscheinen löste der Roman seiner Direktheit wegen einen Skandal aus und wurde angesichts des neuen Krieges 1939 zurückgezogen. Jetzt ist er erstmals auf Deutsch zugänglich.

      Heldenangst
    • 1948. Dix-huit ans après La Peur, quatorze après Clochemerle, Gabriel Chevallier publie un recueil de cinq longues nouvelles, Mascarade. Cinq portraits-charge hauts en couleur, drôles et cruels : le colonel Crapouillot, un dur des durs de 14-18, qui " veut des morts " pour faire sérieux ; tante Zoé, vieille fille bigote et pétomane ; Mourier, un as de l'homicide domestique ; Dubois, un as lui aussi mais du marché noir et " le vieux ", qui gratte son jardin pour déterrer son or. Cinq récits qui commencent dans la banalité avant de basculer dans le sordide et la tragédie.

      Mascarade