Playing with Fire (Vailland novel)

1945 novel by Roger Vailland

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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1. ^ M. Kelly The Cultural and Intellectual Rebuilding of France After the Second World War 0230511163 2004 "Roger Vailland, whose prize-winning novel Playing with Fire (Drôle de jeu, 1945) explored ironies in the work of the Resistance, was a staunch fellow-traveller, who eventually joined the party in 1952.
2. ^ Lloyd Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: p.157 Roger Vailland and the resistance novel

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