Derborence

Derborence is a French-language novel by Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz that was first published in 1934 and for which two English translations have been published. It is a love story set in the Alps, against the backdrop of a natural disaster. Background Derborence is a novel by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, a francophone Swiss writer who was born and lived for most of his life in the Swiss Canton of Vaud. It was first published in 1934. In a review of the first published English translation of Derborence, entitled When the mountain fell, The New York Times wrote that Ramuz "has long been recognized in France, as well as in his native Switzerland, as a writer of stature: in 1945 he was a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature". Derborence was described by the Macmillan Guide to Modern World Literature in its section on Ramuz, as the "most fully satisfying of his twenty-two novels".