Author | Roger Martin du Gard |
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Original title | Les Thibault |
Translator | Stuart Gilbert, Madeleine Boyd, Stephen Haden Guest |
Language | French |
Genre | Family saga, roman-fleuve |
Publisher | Nouvelle Revue Française (French) Viking Press, Bantam Books (English translation) |
Publication date | 1922–1940 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1926–1941 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
The Thibaults (French: Les Thibault) is a multi-volume roman-fleuve (French, novel sequence) by Roger Martin du Gard, which follows the fortunes of two brothers, Antoine and Jacques Thibault, from their upbringing in a prosperous Catholic bourgeois family to the end of the First World War. The author was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature largely on the basis of this novel sequence.