THE WOLF'S DOMAIN (0000), Robert Margerit

It was Julien Gracq, in the early 1950s, in a now-famous text, who first drew readers' attention to the work of Robert Margerit – whose books have only truly been rediscovered by the general public in recent years. La Terre aux Loups (1958), a chronicle of a family of country squires in 19th-century Limousin, is generally considered, among the author's novels, to be the most ambitious – and above all, the most unsettling. A man returns home after the Napoleonic Wars, hoping to finally find peace. But too many years spent fighting have given him a dark taste for killing. And his children after him will resort to murder to satisfy their desires, their hatreds, their grudges... A Baudelairean tale, with dark sensuality, that undoubtedly holds a unique place in our literature.