The Order of the Day

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The Order of the Day

First edition (French)
Author	Éric Vuillard
Original title	L'Ordre du jour
Translator	Mark Polizzotti
Country	France
Language	French
Genre	récit (narrative)
Publisher	Actes Sud
Publication date	2017
Published in English	2018
ISBN	9781590519707

The Order of the Day (French: L'Ordre du jour) is a novel by the French writer Éric Vuillard.^[1] In French it is described as a récit, while The Guardian described it as an historical essay with literary flourishes.^[2] Benjamin Welton reviewed the book in The New York Journal of Books 24 Sept. 2018 as " bad history imbued with pop psychology and adorned with purple prose riddled with unnecessary diversions."^[3]

The book received the Prix Goncourt.^[4]

Content[]

The action of the book takes place during the time between the rise to power of the German Nazi party (chapter: A secret meeting),^[5] and the Anschluss (chapter: Interview at the Berghof and The art of indecision).^[6]

See also[]

• 2017 in literature
• Contemporary French literature

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