Silbermannis a beautiful but painful book . . . it is about the difficult ties of adolescent friendship in the midst of the cruelty of a group, the tensions between children and their parents and the themes of sincerity, bad faith and self-deceit.
Lacretelle's indictment of prejudice is as morally chilling today as it must have been in the 1920's
(1888-1985) was a novelist, hournalis, and member of the academie francaise. Silbermann, his second novel, was orginally published in 1922 and was awarded the Prix Femina.
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