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Alain Leroy achève une cure de désintoxication dans la région parisienne dans une maison santé où l'on soigne surtout des neurasthéniques. Les grands thèmes de ce court roman sont l'amour des femmes, la séduction, le désir, trouver le goût de vivre. Il est séparé de sa femme, Dorothy, qui est à New York. Il déambule dans Paris, sans but. Il fréquente des soirées mondaines, revoit des amis du temps où il se droguait. Il se sent seul, l'ennui, l...

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Adapted to film by both Louis Malle and Joachim Trier, this heart-rending and tenderly wrought novel narrates the decline of an artist and heroin addict in 1920s Paris.Pierre Drieu la Rochelle might be said to be both the Hemingway and the Fitzgerald of twentieth-century French literature, a battle-scarred veteran of the First World War whose work chronicles the trials and tribulations of a lost generation, a man about town, a heartbreaker wit...

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In this partly autobiographical essay, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle confronts us with the decadent reality of France, Europe and the West in the 1920s.

In this essay published in 1934, the writer Pierre Drieu la Rochelle demonstrates the fundamental contradictions of Marxism and draws a parallel between Soviet-style communism and the Italian and German fascist regimes, whose rapprochement he in a way welcomes by declaring himself in turn a socialist and a fascist...

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle's harrowing novel of modern decadence and despair, now available again in a new translation. A vitalist writer's portrait of modern existential malaise, exemplified in the life of a young drug addict, a man who can see through the emptiness of domesticated half-life, but who finds no outlet for his drives, no line of escape."Very few novels of this period have portrayed in such realistic terms the complete isolation of...

The Man on Horseback is Pierre Drieu la Rochelle's powerful novel of a South American Caudillo who seizes control of the Bolivian government and dreams of reestablishing the glory of the Incan Empire. A tragic tale of a populist leader who seizes power from the corrupt establishment, but then must struggle to hold onto it as the old guard plot their revenge, and as the forces he unleashes begin to spiral out of his control. Told through the vo...

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Anni Venti. Atene è una città cosmopolita: crocevia di diplomatici, industriali e rivoluzionari. Un comunista braccato dalla polizia trova rifugio nelle stanze di Margot, una giovane donna abituata ai fasti della vita borghese. Con l'approvazione del marito, dandy e gran seduttore, Margot si persuade a scortare lo sconosciuto a Delfi, teatro cosmico dove le rovine sembrano scheletri di una civiltà sconfitta dal tempo. Attraverso questo viaggio...

I tre amici si sedettero nell'angolo del ristorante dove s'appartavano i clienti abituali. Ferid, Melançour e Staalbaum erano occupati con due giovani americane di passaggio, ma subito non ebbero occhi che per Margot e per il loro fortunato rivale, che gongolava. Le americane si domandavano chi fosse quella coppia appena arrivata. 'Lui chi è?' chiesero. 'Il marchese Santorini, dell'ambasciata italiana. E la marchesa è un incanto, non è vero?