Word: andre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST OF THE JUST, by André Schwarz-Bart. Through one family, a bitter, largely self-taught first novelist follows the unrelenting horror of anti-Semitism from medieval England to Hitler's Germany. The author's grim tale belies his dictum: "To be a Jew is impossible...
...METAMORPHOSIS OF THE GODS, by André Malraux. With impressive erudition and zeal, Malraux tries to elevate the world's great art to the level of religion. He is persuasive enough when he finds the "spark of the divine" in religious art, less successful when he looks for it in secular painting. But few art critics have ever been more fervent in uncovering the meaning behind the artist's intention...
...Wreckers. Storm clouds could be seen gathering. In protest at De Gaulle's new course, André Jacomet, No. 2 man in the Algerian civil government, handed in his resignation. De Gaulle's response was decisive. Ignoring Jacomet's resignation, De Gaulle ordered him dismissed from his post and suspended his membership in the elite Council of State. After that, other officials in Algeria who had been muttering about resigning fell abruptly silent...
...seemed a splendid idea to France's Minister of State for Cultural Affairs, Author André Malraux, to have the state pay retirement pensions for legitimate writers. Accordingly, Malraux went before France's National Assembly, asked for a 1961 pension budget of $106,800. To determine who in France is really an author, Malraux applied the social security definition that a writer is one drawing at least 51% of his income from author's rights. To his dismay, Malraux found French letters in a sad state. Only 150 writers in all France qualified under the definition...
...Last of the Just, by André Schwarz-Bart. A sprawling, harrowing, quasi-epic novel that follows, often with eloquence, the travails of Europe's Jews from the medieval pogroms to Hitler's crematories...