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Author | Marcel Aymé |
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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]