Un amour sans résistance

Synopsis of Un amour sans résistance

«Un amour sans résistance» is the novel by Gilles Rozier, published by Denoël in paperback (168 pages, in French).

In the midst of the Second World War, a German teacher's life is disrupted when he falls in love with a Jewish soldier. The narrative moves through an occupied and vulnerable France, a setting of desires and contradictions between ambiguous heroism and passivity, and underscores the tension between two opposing languages with unsettling affinities: Yiddish and German.

This novel, Gilles Rozier's third, was published in 2003 and nominated for the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 2006.

For those seeking literary fiction with historical setting and an intimate look at the ambivalences of conflict.