“Richard Howard’s eloquent 1965 translation captures every exquisite twist…La Rochelle’s courageous plunge into the void reveals itself to be, as Will Self suggests in his incisive introduction, an existential novel rivaling those of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and William S. Burroughs.” —David Wright, Library Journal
“La Rochelle’s courageous plunge into the void reveals itself to be, as Will Self suggests in his incisive introduction, an existential novel rivaling those of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and William S. Burroughs.” —David Wright, Library Journal
“The Fire Within is Drieu’s best book, if you ask me. In it he’s working quickly. He’s in a hurry. Death’s breathing down his neck and over the pages of his novel, briskly sweeping away all digression.” —Bernard Frank
“[Drieu] is one of those immortal figures, frequent in the history of letters, whose faint shade—growing more and more substantial by the year—tramples the dust and ashes of lives we used to think of as successful.” —François Mauriac
“I, for my part, situate myself with Céline and Montherlant and Malraux.” —Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
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