Oil on Fire - Hervé Bazin - EO Superb Moroccan Binding 1954

• Hervé Bazin, the "Novelist of the Family or even of the Bourgeoisie"

"A craftsman of writing, but a gifted craftsman, Hervé Bazin leaves books that are a reflection of our time. A reflection sometimes - often - grating, critical, and which is enamelled with brilliant passages, of a stylist recognized as soon as he entered in literature."

Who thus defined the profession of writer: "" Noble term whose first syllable is beautifully conjunctive, whose second conforms to the Sartrean definition (one writes to alert), but whose last does much harm to the previous ones.

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• Portrait of an incendiary, Oil on Fire is one of the most beautiful and moving novels by the great writer Hervé Bazin.

"In a small French village between the two wars, an arsonist rages. A brave man, a volunteer firefighter, stands up against the fire he is spreading. This hero, so appreciated by his congeners, experiences a daily hell within his family. Having suffered serious burns during the war, he has to endure the hateful coldness of his wife, who is disgusted by his appearance and who does everything to drive him mad. But he does not want to part with her and suffers her wrath day after day. He fights against the fire, fights against his wife, fights against himself. His only support, his daughter, is at the center of this tragedy and reveals its plot to us."

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