Blood Dark
Guilloux, Louis / Marris, Laura / Kaplan, Alice Set during World War I, this monumental philosophical novel about human despair inspired Albert Camus' own writing and prefigured the greater existential movement.Blood Dark tells the story of a brilliant philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction. Cripure, as his students call him-the name a mocking contraction of Critique of Pure Reason-despises his colleagues, despairs of his charges, and is ...