The Fire Within

by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

Book Overview

Adapted to film by both Louis Malle and Joachim Trier, this heart-rending and tenderly wrought novel narrates the decline of an artist and heroin addict in 1920s Paris.

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle might be said to be both the Hemingway and the Fitzgerald of twentieth-century French literature, a battle-scarred veteran of the First World War whose work chronicles the trials and tribulations of a lost generation, a man about town, a heartbreaker...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681376210
• ISBN13: 9781681376219
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 8.0"