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Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard (; 23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Biography.
Trained as a paleographer and archivist, he brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for detail, and because of his concern with documentation and the relationship of social reality to individual development, his fiction has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His sympathy for the humanist socialism and pacifism
Vieille France" (1933) (translated as "The Postman")
- "Notes sur André Gide" (1951)
- "Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort" (English: "Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort") (1983)
References.
- Claude Sicard, "Roger Martin Du Gard. Les années d'apprentissage littéraire (1881-1910)", Champion, 1976.
External links.
- Roger Martin du Gard, 1937 Nobel Laureate for Literature
- About Roger Martin