The Law by Roger Vailland
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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- Published
- 1957
- Nationality
- French
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- Unknown
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
- - La Loi
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