Les Thibault, t. II: Le Pénitencier

The Thibaults. II: The Reformatory.

Author

Roger Martin du Gard

Language

French

Year

1922

Country

France

Genre

Novel

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The Thibaults is a multi-volume roman-fleuve by Roger Martin du Gard, which follows the fortunes of two brothers, Antoine and Jacques Thibault, from their upbringing in a prosperous Catholic bourgeois family to the end of the First World War. The author was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature largely on the basis of this novel sequence.