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"Plainte contre inconnu" by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle is a novel written in the early 20th century. It sketches a postwar portrait of disillusioned young men in Paris, especially a veteran, Guy La Marche, seen through a sharp, introspective narrator amid bars, theaters, and drifting salons. The book probes masculinity, class, pleasure, and moral fatigue through a circle of soldiers, artists, and socialites whose bravado masks spiritual vacancy.
The opening of the novel moves from the armistice’s stunned relief to nights of drink and bravado in Paris, where the narrator meets the taciturn tank lieutenant Guy La Marche, the loud poet Ablain, and the coarse music-hall star Impéria. La Marche’s strength flickers between impulsive action (a crisp drubbing of a charretier on May Day) and hesitant, compromised desires (a hospital scene with a young man, a nocturnal flight to Marseille, then back to the same bars and postures). His contradictions—reactionary reflexes, modesty shaded by vanity,
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