The Hollow Field

The Hollow Field
Author Marcel Aymé
Original title La Table aux crevés
Translator Helen Waddell
Publisher Éditions Gallimard
Publication date
14 October 1929
Published in English
1933
Pages 276

The Hollow Field (French: La Table aux crevés) is a 1929 novel by the French writer Marcel Aymé. It tells the story of the rivalry between two farming villages, Cantagrel and Cessigney, which is triggered after a failed attempt at tobacco smuggling. An English translation by Helen Waddell was published in 1933.[1]

The novel received the Prix Renaudot.[2] It was adapted into the 1951 film The Village Feud, directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Fernandel, Maria Mauban and Fernand Sardou.[3]

References

  1. "The hollow field". WorldCat. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
  2. "Lauréats du Prix Renaudot". prix-litteraires.net (in French). Retrieved 2015-09-15.
  3. Goble, Alan, ed. (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. New Providence, New Jersey: Bowker-Saur. p. 19. ISBN 1-85739-229-9.

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