Dreamers Rise

In a 2013 post I juxtaposed the self-glorifying funeral instructions left by Oscar Thibault, the patriarch in Roger Martin du Gard's ...

I won't be reading this new translation of Roger Martin du Gard's multi-volume novel Les Thibaults for the very good reason that...

This 1913 novel by Roger Martin du Gard may come across today as a somewhat curious project, a book that is not only a "novel of idea...

Coincidence or fate put an advance copy of Jean Echenoz's fine, slender novel about French soldiers in the Great War into my hands jus...

It is springtime in Paris, 1918. The youngest of the Thibaults, Jacques, has been dead since the beginning of the war; his older brother, A...

As the seventh and longest of the eight parts of The Thibaults draws to a close, armies have been mobilized, fighting has broken out acros...

One of Roger Martin du Gard's first published works was a dissertation on the ruins of the abbey of Jumièges in Normandy, and it's ...

After a long illness, Oscar Thibault, the grand paterfamilias of the Thibault family, has died, and among his papers his son Antoine finds i...

Oscar Thibault, the grand Catholic autocrat who looms over the first six parts of Roger Martin du Gard's Les Thibault, has finally died...

The French text of Les Thibaults is readily available in a three-volume paperback edition, but I chose instead to read at least the first...

Much of La belle saison, the third part of Roger Martin du Gard's massive novel Les Thibaults, centers around the relationship betw...

Una novela de Galdós, qué idea. Cuando no era Vicki Baum era Roger Martin du Gard, y de ahí el salto inexplicable a Tristán L'Hermit...

At least thirty-five years ago I greedily devoured this 871-page translation of a novel by the 1937 Nobel Prize-winning novelist Roger Ma...

Some souvenirs from the days before paperback publishing became entirely respectable. The above cover may be the only time the French noveli...