The Thibaults

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937, Roger Martin du Gard crafted an ambitious family saga that traces the fortunes of a bourgeois family through the upheavals of the First World War. Though the novel cycle was celebrated in its time for its sweeping realism and psychological depth, it has since largely faded from the international literary canon.

Set against the backdrop of the French Third Republic through the catastrophe of the First World War, The Thibaults captures the social and political tensions that shaped early twentieth-century France. The novel cycle chronicles a generation caught between the stability of the old order and the shattering violence of modern warfare.