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When Trifles for a Massacre was published, horrified Left critics who had praised Céline's Journey to the End of the Night damned him as a Fascist. Dissenting, Novelist André Gide declared the book should be taken as a joke, although a dangerous one, being virtually a satire on the absurdity and vulgarity of genuine antiSemitism. Bystanding critics found another explanation in the detachment of modern French literature from French life, the tendency of writers like Céline to regard writing as a disinterested mental game, to be played without thought of the social values...
...THOUGHT-READING MACHINE- André Maurois-Harper...
Longheaded, high-domed Wallace Kirkman Harrison and affable mustached J. (for Jacques) André Fouilhoux were among the architects who planned Rockefeller Center. They share a predilection for economy in architectural form. In evolving their Theme Centre for the Fair they made more than 1,000 sketches before they hit on the ultimate starkness of sphere and pyramidal form. Neither had ever been built before; both would certainly influence other World's Fair architecture to avoid superfluous dressing. And though neither the Sphere nor the symmetrical Trylon alone could serve as a direction-pointing landmark to guide wanderers...
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK - Vladimir Nabokoff - Bobbs-Merritt ($2.50). The European psychological novel of moral decay, represented at its best by the novels of André Gide, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, is now eclipsed by politically-minded fiction. Sharply reminiscent of such psychopathic fiction, but with an acuteness that raises it above mere imitativeness is Laughter in the Dark, first English translation of a Russian exile. The story tells of a respectable, middle-aged Berlin art dealer who deserts his family for a tart, reaches its climax of corruption when, after he is blinded, she carries...
...respectable 54-year-old Catholic Nationalist Echo de Paris. Last week it was finally rescued by and merged into veteran Leon Bailby's struggling Rightist Le Jour. Le Jour, now Le Jour-L'Echo de Paris, lost, however, one of Echo's biggest assets: Anglophile André Géraud, better known as Pertinax, one of the best connected of the many well-connected political writers in France. His political dispatches which sparkle like champagne at a diplomat's table have long appeared in the London Telegraph and the New York Times. From...