Fear

Gabriel Chevallier

ISBN 10: 1846687276 / ISBN 13: 9781846687273

Published by Profile Books Ltd, 2012

About this Item

It is 1915. Jean Dartemont is just a young man. He is not a rebel, but neither is he awed by authority and when he's called up and given only the most rudimentary training, he refuses to follow his platoon. Instead, he is sent to Artois, where he experiences the relentless death and violence of the trenches.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fear
• Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846687276
• ISBN 13: 9781846687273
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted “war to end all wars” seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter. After he is wounded, he returns from the front to discover a world where no one knows or wants to know any of this. Both the public and the authorities go on talking about heroes — and sending more men to their graves. But Jean refuses to keep silent. He will speak the forbidden word. He will tell them about fear.

About the Author

Gabriel Chevallier (1895-1969) was the son of a notary clerk and lived in Lyon, France, for most of his life. He was called up at the start of World War I and wounded a year later. Returning to the front, he spent the remainder of the war as an infantryman and was ultimately awarded the Croix de Guerre and named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. He began writing the novel Fear in 1925 but did not publish it until 1930, a year after his first novel, Durand: voyageur de commerce, was released. Fear was suppressed during World War II and not made available again until 1951, by which time Chevallier had earned international fame for his Clochemerle, a comedy of provincial French manners of the Beaujolais region that sold several million copies. In all Chevallier would write twenty-one novels, including several more set in the fictional village of Clochemerle.