THE YOUTH OF HENRY IV by Heinrich MANN (1938)

THE YOUTH OF HENRY IV by Heinrich MANN - Translated from German by Danielle Semmeur - Éditions Pierre Tisné (95 rue de Rennes, Paris) - 1938 - 441 pages - Paperback. His novel of Henry IV, Heinrich Mann wrote it mainly in France where he was exiled, in Nice, from 1933-1938. While there are numerous biographies of the King of France and Navarre, Heinrich Mann’s book has a particular coloring, because it illuminates as much the time of writing which is that, terrifying, of Hitler and the rise of dangers, as the time of the great Bearnese. It is a disturbing construction by the writer who opposes the two figures almost head-on