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Jacques de Lacretelle

A psychological novel about prejudice against a Jewish boy, depicting the pressures of school society and the pain of alienation.

psychological fictionantisemitismschool life

Work Information

A boy’s anxiety reflects the prejudice of modern society.

Jacques de Lacretelle’s representative novel delicately traces the tension between discrimination and self-consciousness through a young protagonist.

Book Information

Publisher
Editions Flammarion
Published
1973-05-01
Language
フランス語
Size
11.2 x 0.8 x 18 cm
ISBN-13
9782070364176
ISBN-10
2070364178
Price
2942 JPY
Category
洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary

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Reviews

  • Très beau livre. Histoire tellement poignante. Écrite dans les années 20 du siecle dernier et pourtant tristement toujours d’actualité

  • Trata de la infancia y juventud de un joven estigmatizado por ser judío en el periodo de entreguerras.

  • A little known masterpiece that is both chilling and absorbing. It is set in the France of the 1920's and presents the reader with a complex story of anti-semitism in an elite boy's school. The novel is noteworthy for its foreshadowing of what will occur during the Second World War when France's Jews were subjected to horrific persecution under the Vichy Government led by Marshal Petain. The Novel is brief in length but devastating in terms of its implications for French Society.

  • Magnifique œuvre, quelle histoire, un auteur largement en avance sur son temps. Je recommande cette lecture à tout esprit curieux de la pensée de la société du début du 20e.

  • Lacretelle échappe au simplisme et aux bons sentiments. Il nous fait découvrir une époque et des conflits que l'on avaient oubliés . Livre bref et percutant, à la chute inattendue.

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