Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort. (Translations).(Review)

World Literature Today | March 22, 2001| | Copyright

Roger Martin du Gard Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort Luc Brebion, Timothy Crouse, trs. New York. Knopf. 1999 xxxi + 778 pages. $35 ISBN 0-679-43397-x

IN THE YEARS before World War II, Roger Martin du Gard had acquired a reputation as an outstanding realist, in the same category as a Jules Romain, and as a master of "le roman fleuve." But by the end of the century, he had become, in spite of winning the Nobel Prize (1933) for the eight volumes of the family epic Les Thibault, something of a distinguished unknown, overshadowed by the vogue of existentialism and "le ...

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