L'Appel du Sol

Adrien Bertrand (1888–1917) was a French novelist, poet, and journalist whose short career was marked by surrealist anti-war works written while dying from World War I wounds. He is best known for his Prix Goncourt-winning novel L'Appel du sol (1916), depicting soldiers' disillusionment, and L'Orage sur le jardin de Candide (1917), a collection of philosophical short stories. A pacifist who heroically served in French cavalry, he succumbed to shrapnel injuries sustained in 1914. Read more →