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Les Thibault Premiere Partie Le Cahier Gris
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This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making.
We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.
204 pages, Paperback
Published October 31, 2013
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About the author
Roger Martin du Gard
199 books111 followersAwarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937 "for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel cycle Les Thibault."
Roger Martin du Gard (23 March 1881 - 22 August 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details. For his concern with documentation and with the relationship of social reality to individual development, he has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His major work was Les Thibault, a roman fleuve about the Thibault family, originally published as a series of eight novels. The story follows the fortunes of the two Thibault brothers, Antoine and Jacques, from their prosperous bourgeois upbringing, through the First World War, to their deaths. He also wrote a novel, Jean Barois, set in the historical context of the Dreyfus Affair.
During the Second World war he resided in Nice, where he prepared a novel, which remained unfinished (Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort); an English-language translation of this unfinished novel was published in 2000.
Roger Martin du Gard died in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.
Roger Martin du Gard (23 March 1881 - 22 August 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details. For his concern with documentation and with the relationship of social reality to individual development, he has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His major work was Les Thibault, a roman fleuve about the Thibault family, originally published as a series of eight novels. The story follows the fortunes of the two Thibault brothers, Antoine and Jacques, from their prosperous bourgeois upbringing, through the First World War, to their deaths. He also wrote a novel, Jean Barois, set in the historical context of the Dreyfus Affair.
During the Second World war he resided in Nice, where he prepared a novel, which remained unfinished (Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort); an English-language translation of this unfinished novel was published in 2000.
Roger Martin du Gard died in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.
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January 2, 2024
The Grey Notebook is a notepad in which Jacques – the younger son of the Thibault family – and his school friend wrote private messages to each other… And this notebook turned out to be a cause of so much trouble…
Right away Roger Martin Du Gard throws us into the whirlpool of melodramatic events… Jacques and his friend are on the run… And there is a lot of commotion around their flight… Friend’s sister is dying of meningitis… The mysterious priest arrives and heals her using his extreme faith or some other mystical power…
And now the schoolboys are in Marseille and they wish to sail for Africa… And the youngest Thibault is on fire…
Whatever the young rebels get they always cry for more.
Right away Roger Martin Du Gard throws us into the whirlpool of melodramatic events… Jacques and his friend are on the run… And there is a lot of commotion around their flight… Friend’s sister is dying of meningitis… The mysterious priest arrives and heals her using his extreme faith or some other mystical power…
“Woman, I tell you There is no Evil! It’s you who bring it into being ‘and give it its baneful power – because you fear it, because you admit its existence.”
And now the schoolboys are in Marseille and they wish to sail for Africa… And the youngest Thibault is on fire…
His eyes were aflame with rage against the school, the Abbé, the lycée, the principal, his father, society, the world’s injustice.
Whatever the young rebels get they always cry for more.
February 15, 2024
Bien moins poussiéreux que ce que je croyais. Court, efficace, véloce. Prose sobre, pas pompeuse pour deux sous. Les émois adolescents de Daniel et Jacques, aussi sérieux qu’une tragédie, font sourire et rouler les yeux, mais c’est par affection, par empathie. Donne très envie de lire la suite.
February 7, 2021
Jamen, roligt ändå! Inte helt sympatiska karaktärer, men det känns som att det kanske är meningen. Språket ett hyfsat hinder men har förstått tillräckligt för att ändå vara nyfiken på och orolig för vad som ska hända, och för att himla med ögonen åt gossebarnen..
January 22, 2021
Premier tome de la saga "Les Thibault", ce texte vif, rapide, émouvant nous met dans les pas de deux gamins qui fuient leur famille pour mieux vivre leur amitié amoureuse fusionnelle. C'est beau et pur et on veut lire la suite
August 1, 2022
Nobel Prize 🏆 in Literature 1937.
A surprisingly modern novel in its themes, excellently written. This story feels like the prelude to a saga, which means I will be reading the following six books as well.
A surprisingly modern novel in its themes, excellently written. This story feels like the prelude to a saga, which means I will be reading the following six books as well.
July 14, 2018
Moving book, but it reminds me of Zola, and not in a good way. Exploration of doomed characters.
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