Word: hanif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...empire, the war that is to break out at the end of the book hovers like a force more powerful than the will of the strong-willed characters. Long before it has broken out, obscure riots and inexplicably venomous slanders twist personal and social relations. Example: Hanif, Madame de St. Remy's servant (he is as dissolute as she is pious), returns from his sweetheart to find a group of men blocking his path. '"Do you spend the night beside the road, my brothers?' he inquired. . . . and for a moment they confronted him in a silence whose...