A Diary of My Times

…Cimetières sous la lune (1938; A Diary of My Times, 1938), a fierce attack on Fascist excesses during the Spanish Civil War and on the church dignitaries who supported them.

A Diary of My Times) denounces General Francisco Franco’s Falangists. The tradition of the family novel was continued by Roger Martin du Gard’s novel cycle Les Thibault (1922–40). A different kind of family, reared in poverty and engaged in trade union action, was described by…