L'Europe buissonnière

{{Short description|1949 novel by Antoine Blondin}}

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| author = Antoine Blondin

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| country = France

| language = French

| publisher = Éditions Jean Froissart

| pub_date = 1949

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| pages = 391

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L'Europe buissonnière ({{IPA|fr|løʁɔp bɥisɔnjɛʁ}}) is a 1949 novel by the French writer Antoine Blondin. It is based on Blondin's experiences as an STO worker at a rubber plant in Austria in 1943 and 1944. It depicts Europe during World War II in a comical fashion reminiscent of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the End of the Night.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQKFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA288|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture|location=|publisher=Routledge|page=288|isbn=0-203-00330-6|last1=Hughes|first1=Alexandra|last2=Hughes|first2=Alex|last3=Reader|first3=Keith A.|last4=Reader|first4=Keith|date=11 March 2002}}

It was Blondin's debut novel and received the Prix des Deux Magots.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lesdeuxmagots.fr/prix/laureats.html|title=Les lauréats du prix Les Deux Magots|language=French|accessdate=2016-01-23}}

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