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Roger Martin du Gard ( March 23, 1881- August 22, 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details. For his concern with documentation and with the relationship of social reality to individual development, he has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century.
Roger Martin du Gard passed away in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.
Martin du Gard first attracted attention with Jean Barois ( 1913), which traced the development of an intellectual torn between the Roman Catholic faith of his childhood and the scientific materialism of his maturity; it also described the full impact of the Dreyfus affair on French minds.
He is best known for the eight-part novel cycle Les Thibault ( 1922- 1940Events January-February January 5 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. January 6 World War II: Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the Poznan, Warthegau. January 12 World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. February 2 F; parts 1-6 as The Thibaults; parts 7-8 as Summer 1914). This record of a family's development chronicles the social and moral issues confronting the French bourgeoisieThe bourgeoisie is one of the wealthy classes into which a capitalist society is typically divided, according to certain western schools of economic thought, especially Marxism. The term is a French word derived from the Italian borghesia (from borgo vill from the turn of the 19th century to World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of. Reacting against a bourgeois patriarch, the younger son, Jacques, renounces his Roman Catholic past to embrace revolutionary socialismFor information on mainstream political parties using the term "Socialist", see Social democracy and Democratic socialism For the governments of the USSR, the PRC, and others, see: Communist state Other variants of Socialism include Marxism, Communism, an, and the elder son, Antoine, accepts his middle-class heritage but loses faith in its religious foundation. Both sons eventually die in World War I. The outstanding features of Les Thibaults are the wide range of human relationships patiently explored, the graphic realism of the sickbed and death scenes, and, in the seventh volume, L'Été 1914 ("Summer 1914"), the dramatic description of Europe's nations being swept into war.
Other works by Martin du Gard include Vielle France ( 1933Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 See also 1933 in aviation 1933 in film 1933 in literature 1933 in mu; The Postman), biting sketches of French country life, and Notes sur André GideAndre Paul Guillaume Gide ( November 22, 1869 February 19, 1951) was a French author and spokesman for gay rights. Gide was born in Paris, France on November 22, 1869. His father was a Paris University professor of law and died 1880. His uncle was the pol ( 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We; Recollections of Andre Gide), a candid study of the author, who was his friend. Martin du Gard also wrote a somber drama about repressed homosexuality, Un Taciturne ( 1931; A Silent Man), and two farces of French peasant life, Le Testament du père Leleu ( 1914; Old Leleu's Will) and La Gonfle ( 1928; The Swelling). In 1941 he began work on Le Journal du colonel de Maumort, a vast novel that he hoped would prove to be his masterpiece, but it was still unfinished at his death.