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Blood and Oil in the Orient is the story of Lev Nussimbaum, a young Azerbaijani nobleman, and his mad flight across Asia to escape the Bolshevik terror sparked by the Russian Revolution. Full of picturesque descriptions of the different people he met and the stories he heard, Blood and Oil in the Orient is a…
Best known in the English speaking world for his book Le Feu Follet, which has been adopted into several films, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle considered the semi-autobiographical Gilles to be his greatest work. The literary critic Gaëtan Picon wrote that Gilles “is, without any doubt, one of the greatest novels of the century—and one of…
Volume I of III. Gilles is a 1939 moral drama written by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle detailing the decadence of the Third Republic.
Written in 1918, a full two years before the federal emancipation of women, H.L. Mencken, a journalist and satirist from Baltimore, penned this passionate, funny, cynical study of gender relations. Mencken, a lover of all things new and modern, did not hate modern women. “In Defense of Women” is exactly that, a defense of women…
For licensing rights to the essay Faust 1945 the rise and fall of Pierre Drieu la Rochelle to be included in upcoming 4K Ultra HD / Blu-Ray release of Louis Malle’s ‘The Fire Within’.
Harukichi Shimoi was a Japanese poet, translator and writer. Shimoi lived in Italy for many years and was an important promoter of cultural exchange between Japan and Italy. The Italian War is comprised of a collection of letters written by Harukichi Shimoi from the front lines of the First World War, as the Italian army…
Harukichi Shimoi was a Japanese poet, translator and writer. Shimoi lived in Italy for many years and was an important promoter of cultural exchange between Japan and Italy. The Italian War is comprised of a collection of letters written by Harukichi Shimoi from the front lines of the First World War, as the Italian army…
“Suppose that the Emperor of China, landing in France at the head of an armed power, should make himself master of our largest cities and of our capital. That after having burned all the public registers before suffering to read them, and having destroyed or dispersed all of the civil service without inquiring into their…
As a member of the French Parliament, Alexis Tocqueville took it upon himself to become France’s foremost expert on the Algerian question. To this end, he studied the history and people of Algeria, visited the country several times, and undertook a study of both the Islamic religion and Arab language…