Les Bêtes

Pierre Gascar, born Pierre Fournier, was a French writer born in Paris in 1916 to a working-class family; his troubled childhood, spent partly in Périgord after his mother's institutionalization, influenced early works like La Graine and Meilleur de la Vie. com Imprisoned in German camps during World War II, including as a gravedigger in Ukraine, he drew on these experiences for notable works Les Bêtes and Le Temps des Morts, winning the Prix Goncourt in 1953. After the war, he worked as a journalist and literary critic before devoting himself to writing novels, essays on nature, and biographies, earning the Grand Prix of the Académie Française and Prix Roger Caillois.Pierre Gascar