Pierre Drieu La Rochelle - Works

Works

The following list is not exhaustive.

  • Interrogation (1917), poems
  • Etat civil (1921)
  • "Mesure de la France" (1922), essay
  • L'homme couvert de femmes (1925), novel
  • "Le Jeune Européen" (1927), essay
  • "Genève ou Moscou" (1928), essay
  • Une femme à sa fenêtre (1929), novel
  • "L'Europe contre les patries" (1931), essay
  • Le Feu Follet (1931). This short novel narrates the last days of an alcoholic who commits suicide. It was inspired by the death of Drieu's friend, the surrealist poet Jacques Rigaut. Louis Malle adapted it for the screen in 1963 as "Le Feu Follet." Joachim Trier adapted it as "Oslo, August 31" in 2011. English Translation: Will O' the Wisp, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, London, 2000.
  • Drôle de voyage (1933), novel
  • La comédie de Charleroi (1934), is a collection of short stories in which Drieu attempts to deal with his war trauma.
  • Socialisme Fasciste (1934), essay
  • Beloukia (1936), novel
  • Rêveuse bourgeoisie (1937). In this novel, Drieu tells the story of his parents' failed marriage.
  • "Avec Doriot" (1937), political pamphlet
  • Gilles (1939) is Drieu's major work. It is simultaneously an autobiographical novel and a bitter indictment of inter-war France.
  • "Ne plus attendre" (1941), essay
  • "Notes pour comprendre le siècle" (1941), essay
  • "Chronique politique" (1943), essay
  • L'homme à cheval (1943), novel
  • Les chiens de paille (1944), novel
  • "Le Français d'Europe" (1944), essay
  • Histoires déplaisantes (1963, posthumous), short stories
  • Mémoires de Dirk Raspe (1966, posthumous), novel
  • Journal d'un homme trompé (1978, posthumous), short stories
  • Journal de guerre (1992, posthumous), war diary

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