Word: braibant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French critics have hailed Charles Braibant for his "wholesome" qualities, have welcomed The Iron Mother because it is a "change" from the pathological novel of Proustian introspection. Yet, for all its vivid phrases, for all its objectivity, for all its wry humor, The Iron Mother welters in a family situation which can hardly be called wholesome and which should be pathological enough to suit even the most exacting of Freudians...
...IRON MOTHER-Charles Braibant -Harper...
...Braibant's story is the old one of the vampire mother whose dominating ways kill any nascent sense of independence in her children. The "iron" mother, Marlise Bertaud, gets her tremendous power through avarice. She worships at a strong box, spends her evenings balancing her accounts, is as shrewd as a Chinese banker in lending petty sums and collecting five per cent, no more, no less...
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