WILL O’ THE WISP A Nove! by PIERRE DRIEU LA ROCHELLE Translated by MARTIN ROBINSON ‘PMY oS Marion Boyars London + New YorkPublished in the United States and Great Britain in 1998 in Paperback by Marion Boyars Publishers, 237 East 39th Street, New York, N.Y. [0016 24 Lacy Road. London SW15 INL Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Peribo Pty Ltd 58 Beaumont Road, Mount Kuring-gai, NSW 2080 First published in hardcover in Great Britain 1966 by Calder and Boyars Limited © This translation Marion Boyars Ltd, 1966, 1998 Originally published in 1931 and re-issued in [963 as Le Feu Folet by Librairie Gallimard, Paris © 193}, 1963, 1998 Librairie Gallimard All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying. recording or otherwise except brief extracts for the purposes of Teview, without prior written permission of the publishers. Any paperhack edition of this book whether published simultaneously with, or subsequent to, the casebound edition is sold subject to the condition that it shall not by way of trade. be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise disposed of without the publishers’ consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it was published. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Dricu la Rochelle. Pierre, 1893-1945 Will o' the wisp 1. Narcotic addicts — Fiction I. Title 843.9'1 2[F] Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre, 1893-1945 [Feu follet. English] Will 0’ the wisp: a novel / Pierre Drieu La Rochelle : translated by Martin Robinson I. Robinson, Martin. II. Title PQ2607.R5F413 1998 843'.912--de21 98-11474 ISBN Q-7145-0613~3 paperback