Le coup de grâce

Marguerite Yourcenar

About this book

Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, *Coup de Grâce* tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love for Erick becomes an unbearable burden.

Subjects

  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • french fiction
  • gay men
  • gay men in fiction
  • history
  • lgbtq fiction before stonewall
  • love
  • romance literature
  • russian fiction
  • translations into english
  • triangles (interpersonal relations)