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The Tragic Innocents

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Original title
  
Tarendol

Cover artist
  
J. Buckland-Wright

Language
  
French

Originally published
  
1946

Page count
  
425

Publisher
  
Éditions Denoël

Translator
  
Eithne Wilkins

Country
  
France

Publication date
  
1946

Author
  
René Barjavel

Genre
  
Speculative fiction

Published in english
  
1948

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The Tragic Innocents (French: Tarendol) is a 1946 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It tells the story of two teenagers, Jean Tarendol and Marie Margherite, who fall in love in occupied France during World War II. The story is set in an imaginary region inspired by the author's native Drôme. The book was published in English in 1948, translated by Eithne Wilkins.

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Reception

Kirkus Reviews wrote: "This is a story of young love, set in war-time France, poetic, passionately written, with much of beauty -- and yet with an aura of unreality, which perhaps is intentional, in keeping with the mood of the lovers. ... An odd blend of sophistication, of Gallic outspokenness, with a simplicity, almost a naivete, makes this unique in its field. Beautifully translated by Eithne Wilkins, the English text loses nothing of the grace of language."

Adaptation

The novel was adapted into a 1980 television serial with the same title directed by Louis Grospierre. The serial ran in four episodes starring Jacques Penot as Jean, Florence Pernel as Marie and Daniel Gélin as Bazalo.

References

The Tragic Innocents Wikipedia