Abstract
This article examines the last novel published by Eugène Dabit during his lifetime. Although literary history considers Dabit to be the main exponent of the populist novel, this study argues that his work should not be approached according to a classification that he rejected. While subjects such as Paris and life in its working-class neighbourhoods as well as social questions remain present in the novel, Dabit sets his plot in a countryside close to the suburbs and paints a picture of life in a world that refuses to disappear. Moreover, he introduces a vision of nature that is closer to romantic feeling than to a realist writer of the inter-war period.
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