Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Gilles de Pierre Drieu La Rochelle est un roman autobiographique saisissant qui plonge le lecteur dans le tumulte de l'entre-deux-guerres. travers le parcours de son protagoniste ponyme, l'auteur dresse un portrait sans concession d'une g n ration d sabus e, en qu te de sens dans une Europe en pleine mutation. Gilles, alter ego de Drieu La Rochelle, incarne le d senchantement d'une jeunesse marqu e par la Grande Guerre. Dandy nihiliste, il erre dans un Paris d cadent, multipliant les aventures amoureuses et les exp riences intellectuelles. Sa qu te existentielle le m ne des cercles surr alistes aux mouvements politiques radicaux, refl tant les tourments d'une poque o les id ologies s'affrontent violemment. Le roman explore avec une lucidit gla ante la tentation du fascisme comme r ponse la crise morale et spirituelle de la soci t moderne. Drieu La Rochelle y d peint, sans complaisance, l' volution de son personnage vers un engagement politique extr me, offrant une r flexion profonde sur les m canismes qui peuvent conduire un individu embrasser des id aux totalitaires. Gilles s'inscrit naturellement dans les cat gories Litt rature fran aise du XXe si cle, Romans historiques et tudes politiques . L'auteur y d ploie un style incisif et une analyse psychologique fine pour dresser le tableau d'une poque charni re de l'histoire europ enne. Au-del de sa dimension politique, le roman offre une m ditation poignante sur la condition humaine, l'amour et la mort. La prose l gante de Drieu La Rochelle, empreinte de lyrisme et de d sespoir, fait de Gilles une oeuvre majeure de la litt rature fran aise, aussi fascinante que controvers e.

Adapted to film by both Louis Malle and Joachim Trier, this heart-rending and tenderly wrought novel narrates the decline of an artist and heroin addict in 1920s Paris. Pierre Drieu la Rochelle might be said to be both the Hemingway and the Fitzgerald of twentieth-century French literature, a battle-scarred veteran of the First World War whose work chronicles the trials and tribulations of a lost generation, a man about town, a heartbreaker with a broken heart, a literary stylist whose work is as tough as it is lyrical and polished. Politically compomised as Drieu came to be by his affiliation with the fascist right and collaboration under Nazi occupation--Drieu committed suicide at the end of the war--his novels remain vivid reflections of a broken spiritual and political world of the interwar years and as works of art, and to this day they are widely read and greatly admired in France. The Fire Within, which has been successfully adapted to the screen by Louis Malle and more recently Joachim Trier, is the lacerating tale of Alain Leroy, a war veteran and beautiful young man of whom the world is expected but who has taken refuge from the world in drugs. After being institutionalized, Alain emerges to try to put his life together again, but in spite of the attentions of friends and lovers, he struggles to find his way.

»Jag tänkte att jag faktiskt inte tyckte att Gonzague var särskilt kvick eller lustig. Men ett slags högmod kom till min undsättning, jag ville rättfärdiga min vana och Gonzague drog fördel av det. Bland andra var hans gestalt ganska roande. Jag krävde inte mycket av honom. Vi talade om våra slipsar, om nästa boxningsmatch och våra kamraters framtid. Kanske den här kommer att inträda i Akademien? Naturligtvis. Och den här kanske blir statssekreterare? Varför inte. Den här tredje kommer att lämna sin egen värld och snart ligga i en arvtagerskas säng och sitta i fyrtio olika bolagsstyrelser. Vi pratade på. Gonzague hängav sig åt vår lilla lek med sin primitiva observationsförmåga som inte utvecklades i brist på eftertanke och meditation. Han låtsades känna igen sig bland indolensens, skyndsamhetens, skörlevnadens och enkelhetens skenbilder. Men i sin avsaknad av all känsla för det tragiska förnam han inte de hemliga tonfallen i en röst som ljöd bakom en mask.« Pierre Drieu la Rochelle Pierre Drieu la Rochelle (18931945) var en fransk författare. Han rönte framgångar med en rad romaner om Paris borgerliga liv. Irrblosset (1931) utgör tillsammans med den postumt utkomna Farväl till Gonzague och Den tomma resväskan hans »cycle Rigaut«, som baseras på hans vän Jacques Rigaut, som tog sitt liv 1929. Den tomma resväskan och Farväl till Gonzague har här för första gången översatts till svenska. Hillevi Norburg översatt och Daniel Pedersen har skrivit ett efterord.

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle (18931945) var en fransk författare. Han rönte framgångar med en rad romaner om Paris borgerliga liv. Irrblosset (1931) handlar om Alain, en drogberoende ung man som slits mellan olika kvinnor och vänner under några få dagar i Paris. Boken förespeglar Rochelles eget öde i slutet av kriget. Den utgör tillsammans med den postumt funna Farväl till Gonzague och Den tomma resväskan Rochelles »cycle Rigaut«, som baseras på hans vän Jacques Rigaut. Dessa delar utkommer lika­så på Bokförlaget Faethon. Lennart Linders översättning har inför denna nyutgåva reviderats.

Originally published in France consecutively in 1927 and 1928, The Young European and Geneva or Moscow together represent Pierre Drieu La Rochelle's attempt to wrestle with what it means to be European on a continent seemingly hell-bent on tearing itself apart.Born to a middle-class family in Normandy, Drieu lived a short but eventful life traveling throughout the European continent. A few years after dropping out of school, he fought in the Great War for his native France. Having been wounded himself three times, Drieu witnessed firsthand what he saw as the self-destruction of Europe, which would inform much of his thoughts during the interwar period. Drieu would later go on to collaborate with the Germans in WW2, participating in the formation of Vichy France.The Young European, loosely based on Drieu's own experiences, tracks an adventurous, womanizing young man from a first-person perspective in the form of a poetic novel. The author's stand-in struggles with his desire to connect with a pan-European identity with the still sharp memory of the first world war.Geneva or Moscow systematically addresses the many forces that he sees reaping so much destruction around him, including the domination of the machine as well as the evils of capitalism. Drieu tackles the concepts illustrated in the first work at a philosophical level by juxtaposing Soviet communism, aggressively ascendant and spreading fast from its stronghold in Moscow, with the possibility of building a new Europe centered in Geneva.Antelope Hill Publishing is proud to present Pierre Drieu La Rochelle's The Young European and Geneva or Moscow for the first time in English. These two unique and intertwined works from one of the most fascinating periods of European history present a first-hand view of the cultural and political environment of interwar Europe.

In this partly autobiographical essay, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle confronts us with the decadent reality of France, Europe and the West in the 1920s.

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle's harrowing novel of modern decadence and despair, now available again in a new translation. A vitalist writer's portrait of modern existential malaise, exemplified in the life of a young drug addict, a man who can see through the emptiness of domesticated half-life, but who finds no outlet for his drives, no line of escape."Very few novels of this period have portrayed in such realistic terms the complete isolation of the individual in a world where even the most elementary communication is impossible." - Thomas Hines

The Man on Horseback is Pierre Drieu la Rochelle's powerful novel of a South American Caudillo who seizes control of the Bolivian government and dreams of reestablishing the glory of the Incan Empire. A tragic tale of a populist leader who seizes power from the corrupt establishment, but then must struggle to hold onto it as the old guard plot their revenge, and as the forces he unleashes begin to spiral out of his control. Told through the voice of a lowly guitar player who is witness to the great events, as well as a participant, The Man on Horseback is a study of realpolitik in action, full of intrigue and plots by Masons, the Church, and the old aristocracy, as well as a meditation on the relation between action and contemplation, between art and heroism.

Apr s avoir suivi une cure de d sintoxication, Alain s'enferme dans une maison de repos o la solitude et l'ennui p sent sur le moral de l'ancien d bauch . En sortant, il retrouve son ami d'enfance Dubourg qui m ne pr sent une vie rang e, toute vou e l'exaltation de la vie de l'esprit. Mais ce compagnon retrouv parviendra-t-il tenir Alain loign de la vie de salon qui le ronge tant...