{"product_id":"2026100007163-secondhand-secret-journal-and-other-writings","title":"Secret Journal And Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew voices from the turbulent heart of twentieth-century France carry the same haunting complexity as Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and Secret Journal and Other Writings lays bare the inner world of one of literature's most controversial and self-tormented figures. This collection presents the private reflections, confessions, and intellectual meditations of a man who lived through two world wars, grappled with fascism and disillusionment, and ultimately turned his pen on himself with unflinching honesty. The writings chronicle his ideological struggles, romantic obsessions, and the creeping despair of a writer who could never reconcile his political convictions with his artistic soul, offering a portrait of a mind in constant, anguished conflict.\n\nDrieu La Rochelle occupies a singular and contested place in the French literary canon — a gifted stylist whose collaboration with the Nazi occupation of France cast a long shadow over his legacy. His prose is lean, direct, and charged with the peculiar intensity of a man writing against time, and this collection illuminates the private architecture behind the public scandal. Scholars of French modernism, literary biography, and European intellectual history will find it indispensable, while general readers are left with an unsettling question: how do we reconcile great art with a deeply compromised life?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130939777243,"sku":"2026100007163-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/93b16b4f-912a-4d91-9d1b-76bfe41335bc.png?v=1786592928","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007163-secondhand-secret-journal-and-other-writings","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}