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100	1		_aDrieu La Rochelle, Pierre, _d1893-1945
245	1	3	_aLe jeune Européen
250			_aSixième édition
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-02-27
505	0		_aLe Sang et l'Encre: Le Jeune Européen. Vivre pour écrire. Histoire d'un roman. Écrire pour vivre. La liberté -- Le Music-Hall: Une maison sans visage. Une salle vide. Entrée en matière. Le contorsionniste. Décadence et destruction. Danse. L'homme. Seul. Les ruines. Pour en finir.
508			_aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520			_a"Le jeune Européen" by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle is an autobiographical essay written in the early 20th century. It follows a cosmopolitan narrator—the self-styled “young European”—through war, pleasure, revolution, and self-scrutiny, as he wrestles with identity, modern Europe’s drift, and the pull between action and art. Through confessional scenes and sharp reflections, the work probes violence, desire, faith, and the seduction and ruin of literature. The opening of the book presents a restless first-person life: an uncertain parentage, a rich and hedonistic youth across Europe, then the shock of 1914 and enlistment in the French infantry. The narrator embraces patrols, terror, and a mystic exaltation, then grows disillusioned, deserts via the German lines, escapes through Switzerland, kills for a passport, and flees to America, where marriage, money, and athletic bodies prove empty. Drawn to Russia, he rides the revolutionary wave, fights in border wars, and leaves disenchanted by a clumsy, American-style industrial creed, returning to Paris with money and fatigue. There he sinks into “paresse,” drifting through nocturnal Paris while diagnosing mass spectacle, consumer life, and his own isolation, and he relives a lifelong tug-of-war with books and the urge to write. He first writes about his past, then bungles a “novel” (Finette and Gille) that collapses into confession—published as a dull, uneven book with a few raw pages of blood. Learning from failure, he turns to “écrire pour vivre,” hoping to sing others rather than himself, yet keeps debating subjectivism, action, and the role of art, closing this opening stretch by longing to be fully a man—athlete, friend, lover, and artist—despite feeling thwarted. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cParis: Gallimard, 1927
653			_aFrench essays
856	4		_uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k812519
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78063
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