page_title: Louis Guilloux
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Guilloux
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Portrait de l'écrivain Louis Guilloux en 1935, par Eugène Dabit (1898-1936)
context_page_description: Louis Guilloux was a French writer born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, where he lived throughout his life. He is known for his Social Realist novels describing working class life and political struggles in the mid-twentieth century. His best-known book is Le Sang noir, which has been described as a "prefiguration of Sartre's La Nausée."
context_section_description: Louis Guilloux (15 January 1899 – 14 October 1980) was a French writer born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, where he lived throughout his life. He is known for his Social Realist novels describing working class life and political struggles in the mid-twentieth century. His best-known book is Le Sang noir (Blood Dark), which has been described as a  "prefiguration of Sartre's La Nausée."
caption: portrait of Guilloux by Eugène Dabit
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