by Roger Martin du Gard · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475304519
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«Jean Barois» is the novel by Roger Martin du Gard, published by Orbis in hardback (317 pages, in Spanish).
Set in France at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the novel follows Jean Barois, an intellectual caught between religious faith and scientific rationalism. His story intersects with the Dreyfus affair and the emergence of a new generation of intellectuals, in a society undergoing profound transformation.
Translation by Ricardo Anaya. Collection «Los Premios Nobel», number 72. Originally published in 1913; this Orbis edition is from 1983.
For those interested in the French novel of ideas and the debate between faith and reason in the era of the Dreyfus case.
Roger Martin du Gard was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.
