by René Barjavel · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266023047
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«Le Grand Secret» is the science fiction novel by René Barjavel, published by Pocket in paperback (384 pages, in French).
A couple separated by an extraordinary event reunites under unique circumstances. The plot also follows the trail of a great secret that, since 1955, links the leaders of the great powers and would explain the end of the Cold War, the assassination of Kennedy, May 68 in France, and Nixon's trips to Moscow and Beijing.
The work was originally published in 1973 and won the Prix Maison de la Presse in the novel category; this edition is from 1974.
For readers of classic science fiction with a command of French looking for a novel of mystery and international politics.
René Barjavel was a French author, journalist and critic who may have been the first to think of the grandfather paradox in time travel. He was born in Nyons, a town in the Drôme department in southeastern France. He is best known as a science fiction author, whose work often involved the fall of civilisation due to technocratic hubris and the madness of war, but who also favoured themes emphasising the durability of love.
