Henry de Montherlant
French author and playwright whose fiction and essays celebrated virile values and a stoic contempt for democratic mediocrity. The Girls tetralogy is his most notorious work, a devastating portrait of misogynistic masculinity.
Works
- The GirlsNovel exploring masculine desire and the protagonist's troubled relationships with women
- Pity for WomenMeditation on male infidelity and romantic disillusionment
- The Demon of Good
- The LepersNovel set among outcasts and the morally isolated
- Chaos and NightPolitical novel set during Spanish Civil War about an aging anarchist's last stand