The dying land

Author: Rene Bazin

Publication year: 2021

Number of pages: 195

Type of book: Historical novel

In his novel “The Land That Dies,” René Bazin presents us with a story about deep France, about that land that the country of vineyards and vast fields once knew and that has been forgotten in this time. Therefore, it is a wonderful evocation of the life of peasants who lived in complete self-merging with nature, and it touches on the life difficulties they faced, but it also sheds light on the attractiveness of cities following the transformations of what was known at the time as the Industrial Revolution, that is, the social, economic and moral transformations that cast their shadows on French rural society. Late nineteenth century.