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Episode 5 - Farewell to Gonzague by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
E
January 27, 2022 · 17 min
Udith Dematagoda reads a poisonous letter by the French writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle to his late friend the Dadaist poet Jacques Rigaut, who had recently killed himself. Rigaut's suicide would serve as the inspiration for Drieu's most famous novel 'Le Feu Follet' (Will O' the Wisp, 1931).