Roland Dorgelès

Dorgelès, Roland (pseud. of Roland Lecavelé) (1886-1973). Author of novels, short stories, travel literature, and memoirs of bohemian life. He is best known for Les Croix de bois (1919), a novel published on the very day of his demobilization. It recalls Barbusse's Le Feu, though it is less political in its reaction to war. Other war books include La Machine à finir la guerre (1917, with Régis Gignoux), Le Cabaret de la belle femme (1919, collected short stories), Le Réveil des morts (1923), Souvenirs sur les Croix de bois (1929), Bleu horizon (1949). Reminiscences of bohemia include Quand j'étais Montmartrois (1936).

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Roland Dorgelès (1885 in Amiens, Somme – 1973), was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt.

Born Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris.

A prolific author, he is most renowned for the Prix Femina-winning Wooden crosses ("Les croix de bois"), a moving study of World War One, in which he served. It was published in 1919 (in English in 1921).

External links

• Wooden crosses online

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