author
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
1893–1945
A French novelist and essayist shaped by the shock of World War I, he wrote with unusual intensity about disillusionment, desire, and spiritual drift. His work remains compelling and controversial because of both its psychological force and his later embrace of fascism and collaboration.
3 Audiobooks
L'homme couvert de femmes
by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Le jeune Européen
by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Plainte contre inconnu
by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
About the author
Born in Paris in 1893, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle became one of the most discussed French writers of the interwar years. He served in World War I and was wounded more than once, an experience that deeply marked his imagination and fed the sense of crisis found throughout his fiction and essays.
He wrote novels, short stories, and political pieces, and is especially remembered for Le Feu follet and Gilles. His books often explore restlessness, failed ideals, and the search for meaning in a fractured modern world, giving them a raw, uneasy energy that still draws readers.
His legacy is inseparable from politics. In the 1930s he moved toward fascism, and during the German occupation of France he became a prominent collaborationist, a choice that has made his reputation deeply controversial. He died in Paris in 1945.