''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
Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his busines ...
in 1948. Although Vailland later tried to play down the autobiographical elements in the novel, these have been documented by his biographers.
[Lloyd Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France]
p.157 Roger Vailland and the resistance novel
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References
1945 French novels
Novels set during World War II
Novels set in France
Prix Interallié–winning works
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