Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Interwar French Literature

J Earle - 2013 - academiccommons.columbia.edu

In 1922 the novelist and journalist Henri Béraud had the rare honor of being awarded the
Prix Goncourt in recognition of not one but two novels published over the course of the
previous year: Martyre de l'obèse and Vitriol de lune. Of the two, Martyre de l'obèse has …