The Law

VAILLAND, Roger

Book Club

325,000 [i.e. Trois cent vingt-cinq mille] francs (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

English Universities Press

325,000 Francs (Twentieth Century Texts)

This novel is remarkable for its dramatic construction, vivid characterisation and clear economical style. David Nott's edition includes an introduction to Vailland's ideas, a bibliography and full notes to the text.

Literature & Fiction

Nott, David

History & Criticism

Routledge

Now back in print, Roger Vailland's atmospheric 1957 novel won the Prix Goncourt, and the Knopf edition was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. The grotesque game of the Law, played in the taverns of southern Italy, is but a shadow of an even fiercer attitude to life-a potent metaphor for a vigorously hierarchical view of existence which rules over the mezzogiorno, the noonday culture of southern Italy. In this novel we are not asked to pardon or condemn the passion of Donna Lucrezia, the assured self-centeredness of the learned aristocrat Don Cesare or even the sinister desires of Matteo Brigante, the controlling godfather. "The Law is an experience I will not easily forget."-V.S. Naipaul. "Makes Mario Puzo's works look rather tame."-Antonia Fraser

The Law: A Novel Set in Apulia, Southern Italy (Elond Classics)

Travel

Eland Publishing

Includes the full French text. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

La Loi

Genre Fiction

Фоліо

Truite

Literary

Chronique d'Hiroshima à Goldfinger, 1945-1965 (French Edition)

Éditions sociales

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