Suzanne And Joseph Pasquier
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the rich tapestry of early twentieth-century Paris, Suzanne and Joseph Pasquier immerses readers in the intimate and turbulent lives of two siblings from the sprawling Pasquier family — a clan as complex and contradictory as France itself. Georges Duhamel chronicles the passionate ambitions of Joseph, a young man driven by artistic dreams, alongside his sister Suzanne, whose quiet resilience anchors the family amid the storms of modern life. This volume, translated with elegant precision by Béatrice de Holthoir, forms part of Duhamel's monumental Pasquier Chronicles sequence — a ten-volume roman-fleuve that stands as one of the towering achievements of French literature between the wars. Duhamel writes with a physician's eye for human frailty and a moralist's devotion to truth, crafting characters of profound psychological depth while holding a mirror to the social and cultural upheavals of a changing France. His prose carries a warmth that is never sentimental, and an irony that is never unkind, drawing inevitable comparisons to Balzac and Galsworthy in its grand scope and humanist vision. For readers who have yet to encounter the Pasquier family, this is an invitation to one of literature's most rewarding domestic sagas — one that, once entered, is impossible to leave.
Author: Georges Duhamel
Format: Hardback
Published: 1946, J. M. Dent and Sons Limited
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the rich tapestry of early twentieth-century Paris, Suzanne and Joseph Pasquier immerses readers in the intimate and turbulent lives of two siblings from the sprawling Pasquier family — a clan as complex and contradictory as France itself. Georges Duhamel chronicles the passionate ambitions of Joseph, a young man driven by artistic dreams, alongside his sister Suzanne, whose quiet resilience anchors the family amid the storms of modern life. This volume, translated with elegant precision by Béatrice de Holthoir, forms part of Duhamel's monumental Pasquier Chronicles sequence — a ten-volume roman-fleuve that stands as one of the towering achievements of French literature between the wars. Duhamel writes with a physician's eye for human frailty and a moralist's devotion to truth, crafting characters of profound psychological depth while holding a mirror to the social and cultural upheavals of a changing France. His prose carries a warmth that is never sentimental, and an irony that is never unkind, drawing inevitable comparisons to Balzac and Galsworthy in its grand scope and humanist vision. For readers who have yet to encounter the Pasquier family, this is an invitation to one of literature's most rewarding domestic sagas — one that, once entered, is impossible to leave.