by Gabriel Chevallier · ISBN 9782253127819
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«La Peur» is Gabriel Chevallier's war novel, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback, in French.
Gabriel Chevallier recognises himself in the soldier Jean Dartemont to narrate the First World War as experienced at twenty: the assaults, the shells, the trenches, the filth and the lice, and a fear that unnerves more than death. He denounces war propaganda and the gulf between the commanders and the front, in a plea against war.
The novel was originally published in 1930 and censored nine years later; this edition dates from 2010.
A classic of twentieth-century French literature, for readers interested in the First World War and in anti-war testimonies.
Gabriel Chevallier was a French novelist widely known as the author of the satire Clochemerle. He is also known for Fear, a novel about the World War I.
