Playing with Fire (Vailland novel)

Drôle de jeu

later 1960s Le Livre de Poche edition of the novel
Author	Roger Vailland
Language	French
Publisher	Éditions Corrêa
Publication date	1945
Publication place	France

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Drôle de jeu is a prize winning 1945 French novel by Roger Vailland first published by Éditions Corrêa. The work explores the ironies of the French Resistance.

It was published in English in a translation by Gerard Hopkins as Playing with Fire by Chatto & Windus in 1948.^[1] Although Vailland later tried to play down the autobiographical elements in the novel, these have been documented by his biographers.^[2]

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