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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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