It's a great little novel about two aging, poor Aristocrats on the verge of destitution. It's primarily set in Paris in , but provides the history of the family as way to explain how the main charaters have 4/5(3). The Bachelors. by. Henry de Montherlant, Terence Kilmartin (Translator) · Rating details · ratings · 14 reviews. The Bachelors tells the story of two impoverished members of the French provincial aristocracy, the baron de Coëtquidan and his nephew the comte de Coantré, who live in the suburbs of Paris, each pursuing an eccentric, decaying existence cut off from the pressures of the twentieth century/5. It's a great little novel about two aging, poor Aristocrats on the verge of destitution. It's primarily set in Paris in , but provides the history of the family as way to explain how the main charaters have arrived at the conditions and mind sets in which they dwell.4/5(3).
The Bachelors, written some 30 years earlier, delivers much the same warning against wasting one's life. There the enemy is not politics but shyness, a subject on which Montherlant writes far. ― Henry de Montherlant, La Mort qui fait le trottoir [Don Juan] tags: death, defamation. 2 likes. Like "I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time to time, brings better results. And so on. I shall play no such tricks with you . The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (). It might be outdated or ideologically biased. Montherlant, Henry de Born Apr. 21, , in Paris; died there Sept. 21, French writer. Member of the Academic Française (). Montherlant studied at the Sainte-Croix Institute in Neuilly. His early works were influenced by M.
It's a great little novel about two aging, poor Aristocrats on the verge of destitution. It's primarily set in Paris in , but provides the history of the family as way to explain how the main charaters have arrived at the conditions and mind sets in which they dwell. The bachelors.. [Henry de Montherlant] -- Story of the decline and fall of two. When Montherlant’s father died, he was sent off to live with his grandmother and two doddering, bachelor uncles of Picard nobility. You can sense their influence in the way the jobless Léon passes his days: gardening, puttering around the Rue Arago, wearing ugly suits decades out of style, and volunteering at a military hospital until he’s encouraged to leave for his incompetence and his rudeness to the nurses.
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