Playing with Fire (Vailland novel) explained

Drôle de jeu
Author:	Roger Vailland
Country:	France
Language:	French
Publisher:	Éditions Corrêa
Release Date:	1945

Drôle de jeu is a prize winning 1945 French novel by Roger Vailland first published by Éditions Corrêa. The work explores the ironies of the French Resistance.

It was published in English in a translation by Gerard Hopkins as Playing with Fire by Chatto & Windus in 1948.^[1] Although Vailland later tried to play down the autobiographical elements in the novel, these have been documented by his biographers.^[2]

Notes and References

1. M. Kelly The Cultural and Intellectual Rebuilding of France After the Second World War 0230511163 2004 "Roger Vailland, whose prize-winning novel Playing with Fire (Drôle de jeu, 1945) explored ironies in the work of the Resistance, was a staunch fellow-traveller, who eventually joined the party in 1952.
2. Lloyd Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: p.157 Roger Vailland and the resistance novel