432 pages
French language
Published Feb. 20, 1965 by Librairie générale française.
432 pages
French language
Published Feb. 20, 1965 by Librairie générale française.
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.