This is the second of three DLB volumes to cover French literature of the 20th century. It offers a chronological grouping of novelists whose careers often spanned more than one period but whose literary concerns are associated mainly with the decade prior to World War II, the war and Occupation years, the apres-guerre and the 1950s. In the darkening years prior to 1939, radical social changes in France were both inevitable and desirable. Having...