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Blood Dark - Guilloux, Louis, and Marris, Laura (Translated by), and Kaplan, Alice (Introduction by)
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Set during World War I, this monumental philosophical novel about human despair inspired Albert Camus' own writing and prefigured the greater existential movement. Blood Dark tells the story of a brilliant philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction. Cripure, as his students call him--the name a mocking contraction of Critique of Pure Reason --despises his colleagues, despairs of his charges, and is at odds with his family. The year is 1917, and the slaughter of the First ...

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Blood Dark 2017, New York Review of Books

ISBN-13: 9781681371450

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