A PROBING LOOK INTO HUMAN BEHAVIOR.(DAILY BREAK)

The Virginian Pilot | March 26, 2000 | Copyright

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DE MAUMORT

ROGER MARTIN DU GARD

Translated by Luc Brebion and Timothy Crouse

Knopf. 778 pp. $35

AT FIRST GLANCE, ``Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort'' may seem intimidating. In form, style and content, with a 27-page introduction, it hardly looks like a novel at all, but rather a large slice of French social history, beginning in the Belle Epoque and ending during World War II.

``De Maumort'' reminds one of ``The Charterhouse of Parma.'' Like Stendhal, author Roger du Gard ``denovelizes'' the novel while keeping ...

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