Aventures de Jérôme Bardini : roman by Jean Giraudoux
"Aventures de Jérôme Bardini" by Jean Giraudoux is a novel written in the early 20th century. It portrays, with wit and lyricism, a man’s bid to escape the tyranny of habit: Jérôme Bardini, a provincial tax official who decides to disappear and remake himself, leaving behind his devoted wife Renée and their child, while encounters and new figures like the bar-girl Indiana and the young Stéphy widen the canvas of identity, desire,
and reinvention. The opening of the novel follows Bardini through his last morning at home, where every familiar sound and sight hardens his resolve to flee a life ossified by routine. He tends to practicalities—resignation letter, final accounts, a staged drowning at the Seine—then crosses the river to don a new, vaguely American persona and meets the fatalistic Indiana in a sunlit meadow. As night falls, he drifts back through charged landmarks—an estate, a family tomb, the sleeping house—and confronts Renée, who, now steely and lucid, sends him away. The narrative then shifts abruptly to New York’s Central Park, where the young Stéphanie (“Stéphy”) senses her fate as a magnetic stranger approaches, signaling a broader, transatlantic play of chance and transformation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Giraudoux, Jean, 1882-1944 |
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| Title | Aventures de Jérôme Bardini : roman |
| Original Publication | Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1930, reprint 1979. |
| Contents | Première disparition de Jérôme Bardini -- Stéphy -- The Kid. |
| Credits | Laurent Vogel |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French literature -- 20th century |
| Subject | French fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77932 |
| Release Date | Feb 14, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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