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Copyright © 2008 by Le Dilettante

Translation copyright © 2011 by Malcolm Imrie

Introduction copyright © 2011 by John Berger

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First published in France as La Peur in 1930 by Éditions Stock, Paris

This translation first published in Great Britain in 2011 by Serpent’s Tail

Cover image: Otto Dix, Crater Field Near Dontrien, from The War, 1924; © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; digital image © The Museum of Modern Art, licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY

Cover design: Katy Homans

The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Chevallier, Gabriel, 1895–1969.

[Peur. English]

Fear / Gabriel Chevallier ; translation by Imrie Malcolm ; introduction by John Berger.

pages cm. — (New York Review Books classics)

ISBN 978-1-59017-716-7 (pbk.)

1. World War, 1914–1918—Fiction. 2. War stories gsafd I. Malcolm, Imrie translator II. Title.

PQ2605.H67P413 2014

843'.912—dc23

2013049762

ISBN 978-1-59017-741-9

v1.0

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