Kirnoze, Z. (2025). The French novel in the twentieth century. The 1920s and 1930s. St. Petersburg: Aleteya. (In Russ.)

Abstract

The review considers a corrected edition of Z. Kirnoze’s classic monograph on the French novel in the 20th century. The study features a detailed examination of the shift from “the novel about private life to the novel about social life.” The scholar analyzes works by French writers renowned in Russia: A. Gide, F. Mauriac, R. Martin du Gard, and G. Bernanos, and alongside them the lesser-known J. Green, M. Jouhandeau, and J. de Lacretelle, who are still counted among the classics of 20th-century French literature.