by Louis Pergaud · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788413621173
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Published in 1912, 'The War of the Buttons' by Louis Pergaud, portrays the fierce and amusing rivalry between the boys of two neighboring villages: Longeverne and Velrans. Full of plans and counterplans, ambushes and pitfalls, malice and tricks, furious enmity and companionship, crossings of insults and profanity that carry the reader in flight. This work achieves an unforgettable portrait of an age that we all recognize precisely by evoking it from the point of view of its protagonists, some of whom we have all been, to a greater or lesser extent, once.
Louis Pergaud was a French novelist, war poet, and soldier, whose principal works were known as "Animal Stories" due to his featuring animals of the Franche-Comté in lead roles. His most notable work was the novel La Guerre des boutons (1912). It has been reprinted more than 30 times, and is included on the French high-school curriculum.
