Blood Dark (Sang noir) was recommended by someone whose tastes I respect. It takes place on a single day in 1917, in Saint-Brieuc, a small town in Brittany, and describes the comings and goings of various town people, but centering on Cripure, a frustrated and depressed philosophy teacher at the local high school (at a time where high school was for a small élite). The pessimism and the free indirect speech give a flaubertian flavour to the book.
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