![]() ![]() “The truth of this life is death,” Céline wrote in Journey, and Guilloux responded: “It’s not that we die, it’s that we die cheated.” The publisher used that line on a paper band around the book cover. On the left, Guilloux’s contemporaries understood Blood Dark as an important political response to Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s nihilistic Journey to the End of the Night, published three years earlier. Louis Aragon said that Cripure was the Don Quixote of bourgeois ruin André Gide said that the novel had made him lose his footing. Guilloux, Camus said later, was uniquely attuned to the sorrow of others, but he was never a novelist of despair.Ĭamus was only one of many French writers at the forefront of literary life in the 1930s and ’40s who considered Blood Dark a masterpiece. “I know of no one today who can make characters come alive the way you do,” he wrote to Guilloux in 1946. ![]() Louis Guilloux and Albert Camus From The New Republic:Īlbert Camus considered Blood Dark one of the few French novels to rival the great Russian epics. ![]()
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