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...nowadays because so much of his time is taken up as president of Hungary's Arts Council, Academy of Sciences, and Academy of Music, and as a member of Parliament. Once a sandaled Bohemian, he is now one of Budapest's most elegant dressers, lives in fashionable Andrássy Ut. This fall in London he will conduct his latest major composition, a Missa Brevis, which he completed in a cellar in the last days of the Russian siege of Budapest...
This pessimistic view of contemporary life is even further pointed up by the fact that the other writers in this book deliberately turn their backs on it. André Gide and Noel Devaulx hide their talented heads in reminiscences of life before World War I. Nature-Boys Jean Giono and André Chamson wallow in a woody dreamland of hefty peasants and prime wine. Only Jean Cassou gives an impression of both vitality and veracity. His macabre story is an up-to-date version of Romeo & Juliet, in which Juliet ("a nice, retiring person . . . the sort who hates being conspicuous...
...world literature. But the fact is, these masterpieces of the recent past, placed together in one compact volume, seem extremely uneven. This book contains such material as Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin's Gentleman from San Francisco and unfamiliar stories like Roger Martin Du Card's smoldering Confidence Africaine. Examples of the work of writers unknown in the U.S. (e.g., Chilean Poetess Gabriela Mistral and Finnish Novelist Frans Eemil...
...JOURNALS OF ANDRÉE GIDE VOL. II, 1914-1927 (462 pp.)-Translated and annotated by Justin O'Brien-Knopf...
...Author. Jean Malaquais is a short, tense French socialist. He is the author of a novel, Men from Nowhere, which won the Renaudot Prize in Paris, and of an account of his experiences in the French army, War Diary, which André Gide hailed as "an extraordinary document on the collapse of France...