Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inward and "intellectual," and that when put behind the footlights he becomes merely "an old man tottering about . . . with a walking stick." There are other problems. The sharpest drama in the play-Lear's division of his kingdom-comes at the very outset, making the play itself all aftermath. There is not only an elaborate subplot about Gloucester and his sons, but plot and subplot are two tales with but a single theme...
...Country is Renoir's bitter-sweet version (filmed in 1936) of a De Maupassant short story about a romantic brief encounter and its melancholy aftermath. The director puts plenty of feeling into his pastoral atmosphere, and his love scenes catch fire. However, the script is poorly constructed, much of the comedy seems forced, and the picture's mooning romanticism finally cloys...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller; chiefly interesting as a landmark in Euro pean pessimism in the first aftermath of World War II (TIME...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller; chiefly interesting as a landmark in European pessimism in the first aftermath of World War II (TIME...
Gheorghiu wrote his novel in the years 1946-48, and since then a lot of water has run under the bridges of the Danube and the Seine. The Twenty-Fifth Hour catches the despair of many a European in the aftermath of World War II, amid the shards of a broken Europe. By so doing, it has unquestionably won itself a place in the literary history of the times. But like many another European, including Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, Author Gheorghiu now admits that even despair is not without its choices. A fortnight ago, living and writing in a Europe...