Preface to The Naked and the Dead (Les Nus et les Morts)

Authors

  • André Maurois Author
  • Jeanne Fuchs Hofstra University Author

Keywords:

André Maurois, The Naked and the Dead, French translation, Les Nus et les Morts, war novel, Jeanne Fuchs

Abstract

André Maurois’s preface to the 1950 French translation of The Naked and the Dead (Les Nus et les Morts), translated into English by Jeanne Fuchs, introduces the young Mailer to French readers, recounts his Brooklyn and Harvard background and wartime service, defends the novel’s crude language, summarizes its plot and characters, and reads the book as a symbol in which war is judged and condemned. Fuchs supplies annotations on the preface’s French references.

Author Biography

  • Jeanne Fuchs, Hofstra University

    Jeanne Fuchs is Professor Emerita in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University. She published an essay “George Sand: Notorious Woman, Celebrated Writer” in The Lincoln Center Theater Review (Fall/Winter 2006) devoted to Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia. She is co-editor with Ruth Prigozy of Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend (URP 2007) and has a monograph on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Pursuit of Virtue: A Study of Order in La Nouvelle Héloïse (Peter Lang 1993). She has also written on Molière, Marivaux, Alfred de Musset, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Mailer. Her memoir, The Road to Epidauros was published by Author House in 2011.

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Published

2017-10-26

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Maurois, André, and Jeanne Fuchs. “Preface to The Naked and the Dead (Les Nus Et Les Morts)”. The Mailer Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Oct. 2017, pp. 184–188, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/619.