← Henry de MontherlantThe Girlsby Henry de MontherlantNovel exploring masculine desire and the protagonist's troubled relationships with womenFind 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 MontherlantPity 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→