Word: aur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After months of shuffling aur reshuffling, Freshman crew menter Harvey Love finally came up this week with boatings for tomorrow's '51 curtain raiser. But even at this late stage nothing can be considered definite, judging from the tempo of past changes in the Yardling shells...
...Aurélien (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...
...damnable it is to poor Aurélien. Two fat volumes after he falls for little, country-bred Berenice, this normally irresistible Paris playboy has hardly mussed her hair. Berenice is waiting for the perfect spiritual as well as physical love-though willing to take on a casual lover to help the time pass. To offset Aurélien's tedious lack of success with Berenice, Aragon keeps several other affairs going at a gamy clip in & out of bedrooms. No coincidence is too blatant, no cliche worn too smooth: ("How's Martha? I wasn't going...
...Dadaists, days of his early prose poem: "The salmon sheen of silk stockings at the hour when cities are aflame. . . ." But readers who remember Aragon's ruthless, panoramic novels of prewar France (Residential Quarter, The Century Was Voting) will find none of the old satirical bite in Aurélien...