The Fire Within

work by Drieu La Rochelle
Also known as: “Le Feu follet”, “Will o’ the Wisp”

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  • Drieu La Rochelle, 1934
    In Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

    …and Le Feu follet (1931; The Fire Within, or Will o’ the Wisp; filmed by Louis Malle in 1963). Le Feu follet is the story of the last hours in the life of a young bourgeois Parisian addict who kills himself. In one fashion or another, the subject of decadence…

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