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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2004
Summary
‘The plot is a marvel of ingenuity and makes most detective stories look primitive by comparison’ John Brophy
A funny look at the social and political dynamic of French village life.
Gabriel Chevallier’s delightful novel Clochemerle satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular and religious forces in a small wine-growing village in Beaujolais. The eruption begins when the socialist mayor decides that he wants to leave behind a monument to his administration’s achiev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099453888 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099453886 |
| Author: | Gabriel Chevallier |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 239g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 128mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
The plot is a marvel of ingenuity and makes most detective stories look primitive by comparison
The plot is a marvel of ingenuity and makes most detective stories look primitive by comparison – John Brophy
A fine satire, filled with humorous incidents and much subtle philosophy. It is for intelligent, open-minded people with a sense of humour * Yorkshire Post *
The author has a wonderful eye for village types, and the village of Clochemerle is built up for us as a shining and integrated whole - he has chosen to employ his great talents in describing a series of people, episoded and conversations that are ribald, exaggerated and bizarre. I must confess that its rollicking grossness pleased me * Howard Spring *
A full-blooded uproarious farce in the Rabelaisian tradition * Times Literary Supplement *
Gabriel Chevallier
Gabriel Chevallier was born in Lyon in May 1895. He wrote Clochemerle in 1934 and Propre a Rien in 1938. He died in Cannes in April 1969.
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