Roger Vailland

French novelist, essayist and screenwriter, associated with leftist politics; winner of the 1957 Prix Goncourt for the novel "La Loi".

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  1. 1. The Law

    Set in a tightly knit rural community, the novel examines how an unwritten, brutal social code—rooted in honor, jealousy and power—shapes and suffocates everyone’s lives; when desires and transgressions surface, collective hypocrisies and latent violence emerge, forcing residents to choose complicity or resistance and leading to a stark, morally ambiguous reckoning that exposes the gap between law as custom and law as justice.

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