The Officers’ Ward by Marc Dugain (Book Analysis)

This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Officers’ Ward by Marc Dugain. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including war, trauma and injury. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

This clear and detailed 31-page reading guide is structured as follows:

• Biography of Marc Dugain
• Presentation of The Officers’ Ward
• Summary of The Officers’ Ward
• Character study
  • Adrien Fournier
  • Henri de Penanster
  • Pierre Weil
  • Alain Bonnard
  • Clémence
  • Marguerite
• Analysis of The Officers’ Ward
  • War, a perverted theme
  • Focusing on the personal
  • The female figures
  • A unique novel

About The Officers’ Ward

The Officers’ Ward follows a young French officer, Adrien Fournier, who suffers a serious facial injury at the start of the First World War and spends the rest of the conflict in hospital in Paris, where he undergoes a series of operations. However, his face is never restored to the way it used to look, and when he returns to civilian life he is forced to get used to the stares of everyone he encounters.

The Officers’ Ward was extremely successful when it was first published and was adapted for the cinema in 2001, with Dugain writing the screenplay.

About Marc Dugain

Marc Dugain is a French author, theater director and filmmaker, and worked in political science, finance and aeronautics before turning his hand to writing. His novels often feature characters such as officers, businessmen and directors in critical situations involving, for example, war, power or espionage. He is also the author of a comic book, has written several collections of short stories, and has directed both a play and the film adaptation of one of his novels.