← Henry de MontherlantPity for Womenby Henry de MontherlantMeditation on male infidelity and romantic disillusionmentFind on Amazon↗About the authorHenry de MontherlantFrench 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.More by Henry de MontherlantThe GirlsNovel exploring masculine desire and the protagonist's troubled relationships with women→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→
