by Patrick Grainville · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021375374
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«Falaise des fous» is the historical novel by Patrick Grainville, published by Éditions du Seuil in paperback (642 pages, in French).
A Norman settled in Étretat narrates his life between 1868 and 1927: orphaned and wounded in Algeria, he witnesses the birth of Impressionism while Monet paints the cliffs. The novel spans the war of 1870, the Dreyfus affair and the Great War, and features Courbet, Degas, Flaubert, Hugo and Maupassant in a changing world.
The work belongs to the Cadre rouge collection and includes bibliographical references.
For readers of historical fiction interested in Impressionism, nineteenth-century French literature and artists linked to Étretat.
Patrick Grainville is a French novelist.
