Martin du Gard

[ mar-tan dy gar ]

noun

1. Ro·ger [r, aw-, zhey], 1881–1958, French novelist: Nobel Prize 1937.

Martin du Gard

/ martɛ̃ dy ɡar /

noun

1. Martin du GardRoger18811958MFrenchWRITING: novelist Roger (rɔʒe). 1881–1958, French novelist, noted for his series of novels, Les Thibault (1922–40): Nobel prize for literature 1937

Example Sentences

Roger Martin du Gard, whose handwritten plan for his huge family chronicle Les Thibault, looking like a very long menu card, is on show, captured the essence of the place, writing to Gaston in 1939: "it is a kind of family . . . where the bosses are called by their first names; a rather fantastical gathering of cultivated souls."

From The Guardian

Four leading men of letters�Andr� Malraux, Roger Martin du Gard, Fran�ois Mauriac, Jean-Paul Sartre�buried their political differences to dispatch a "solemn petition" to France's President Ren� Coty asking the government to lift the ban on The Question and "condemn unequivocally the use of torture, which brings shame to the cause that it supposedly serves."

From Time Magazine Archive

Roger Martin du Gard, 77, French novelist and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for literature, for the ten-volume Les Thibault, a sort of hindsight saga of French life after the turn of the century; in Bell�me, France.

From Time Magazine Archive

In its past the Academy had spurned Moli�re, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, Andr� Gide, Andr� Malraux, Paul Claudel?

From Time Magazine Archive

The style of Jean Barois is only the skeleton of the method Martin du Gard fleshed out in The Thibaults, but it is made of good solid bones.

From Time Magazine Archive