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The Voice of the People

The Voice of the People

by JeanVautrin (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

Horace Grondin, deputy head of the Surete is in fact Charles Bassicousse, sentenced sixteen years earlier for a murder he did not commit. He is obsessed with wreaking his revenge on Antoine Tarpagnan, the man he believes did commit the crime. Tarpagnan, an army captain, has fallen in love with Gabriella Pucci, the mistress of Paris's greatest villain. As Tarpagnan searches the underworld for Gabriella, Grondin searches for him. Vautrin's novel revels in the chaos and passion of the period culminating in the savage repression of the Commune. The final climactic moments between Grondin and Tarpagnan take place on the barricades as Paris descends into a fury of bloodletting and panic.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 496
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 06 Feb 2003
ISBN 10: 0753816830
ISBN 13: 9780753816837
Book Overview: Jean Vautrin is a winner of the Prix Goncourt A major novel from one of France's most distinguished writers - reminiscent of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables Sold over 97,000 copies on publication in France and already sold in 4 languages 'By turns racy, humorous, elegiac and politically uplifting. The plot bounces along quite nicely, with its huge cast of colourful extras...this is a swashbuckling saga narrated in brief, pacy chapters often of a few pages, which never stays still long enough for the reader to become bored' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Through the many adventures in his novel, the love affairs, the political intrigues, the linguistic fireworks, Jean Vautrin lets us hear in its fullness the cry of the people, springing from the depths of helplessness and despair, a cry of hate and of love inextricably entwined' LE MONDE

Author Bio
Jean Vautrin was born in 1933. He has enjoyed a long and varied career, including a spell teaching French Literature at the University of Bombay in India, working as reporter and cartoonist on the Illustrated Weekly, and working in films alongside directors Roberto Rossellini and Vincente Minnelli. His novels include Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu, which won the Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary accolade, in 1989, and Symphonie grabuge, which won the Prix populiste in 1994.