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...lien (680 pp.)-Louis Aragon, translated by Eithne Wilkins-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
From Aurélien, readers would not be likely to guess that handsome Author Louis Aragon is the intellectual showpiece of France's Communist Party. Written while Aragon kept one jump ahead of the Germans as a prolific pamphleteer of the Resistance, this novel steers clear of both Communism and World War II. Aurélien is the typical, almost standard, Gallic love story in which a wife knows how to stay out of the way when her husband's mistress turns up. Aragon seems as slickly at home in this tradition...
Elsa Triolet is the wife of Poet Louis Aragon, one of whose recent volumes was named The Eyes of Elsa. In 1944, she won France's Prix Goncourt with her short stories; but readers are not likely to find her new book a prizewinner...
...Aragon tries earnestly to explain that Michel's gigolory results from his being at heart a frustrated knight-errant in today's ignoble world. She redeems his calloused soul by making him die nobly in World War II. But three-fourths of The White Charger is simply a listing of Michel's tedious romantic conquests. Only the most dogged reader will remember, by the end, just what made Elisabeth different from Mary, or from Marjorie, and Riri, and Gisėle, and Irene, and Francine, and Nicole, and Mariana, and Lu-cette, and Lily-to mention only...
...Trianon proved so profitable that the brothers laid out $1,750,000 in 1926 to build the Aragon, which features Spanish-style towers, arched balconies, and a deep blue ceiling in which stars twinkle and fleecy white clouds float around. Says Bill Karzas, who never had time to polish his English: "We think what people want, we appeal to the five senses. We give good music for ear, beautiful place for eye, fresh air for smell, good chairs for comfort, and special ice cream for taste...