The Violins of Saint-Jacques (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: War allegory
- Time of Work: Events of the year 1902 as recalled from the year 1952
- Setting: Mitylene in Asia Minor and the Caribbean island Saint-Jacques
- Principal Characters: Berthe de Rennes, Count Raoul de Serindan, Sosthene de Serindan, Josephine de Serindan, Valentin Sciocca, Marcel Sciocca
- Genres: Long fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Caribbean, Politics, Race, Twentieth century, Revolutions, Social issues, Asia or Asians, War, Islands, Good and evil, Volcanoes
- Locales: Asia Minor, Aegean Sea, Mytilene, Saint-Jacques, Caribbean
The Novel
In 1902, Captain Alfred Dreyfus languishes on France’s Devil’s Island, wrongly convicted of betraying military secrets and sentenced to life imprisonment. By 1906, he will be proved innocent and freed from the twelve years of incarceration that have elevated his personal plight to a symbol of justice. In the interim, throughout France and her colonies, his name divides Royalist from radical, Catholic from anticlerical, nobleman from Freemason. Conservative incumbents contrive to preserve tradition; intellectual revolutionaries plot to abolish tyranny....
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