Henri Troyat Summary

Critical Essay by Katherine Woods ["Judith Madrier"] is set against the background of the early months of the war and was written during [Troyat's] own service as an officer with... Read more

Critical Essay by Henri Peyre [Henri Troyat] is no experimenter, no champion of the antinovel, no acrobatic wielder of sentences annoyingly deprived of punctuation. He does not play at making time re... Read more

Critical Essay by James Lord [In "Tolstoy" it] is not a mere life that Troyat presents; it is a vast spectacle, a pageant, a panorama. It is an immense miracle play of the human situati... Read more

Critical Essay by M. J. Harrison [La Neige en Deuil (The Mountain)] is a tale of great simplicity, yet one cannot fail to be struck by the quantity of imagery to be found in it. Troyat has achieved t... Read more

Critical Essay by Adrianne Blue [Head in the Clouds] is a cloying book, dreary. Troyat occupies a universe which is pre-Sarraute, pre-Camus, indeed apparently contemporaneous with Maupassant's... Read more

Critical Essay by Marc Slonim The chief merit of the [biography "Pushkin"] is at the same time its main defect. While the book succeeds to a considerable extent in recreating an authent... Read more

Critical Essay by Virgilia Peterson In "My Father's House" which spans the twenty-five years before the outbreak of the first world war Mr. Troyat sets out to write the chronicle... Read more

Critical Essay by Doris Grumbach [In The Mountain, a] plane for Calcutta crashes on a Swiss Alp. Its passengers are all presumed dead, but it is carrying as well a cargo of gold for England. Two brot... Read more

Critical Essay by Henri Peyre "The Red and the White" is Troyat's most ambitious and most successful novel to date. It is a variegated picture of Russia during World War I and th... Read more