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Starts Sunday: Elusive Robert Bresson's DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST will receive its American premiere. A tortuous film that explores a young priest's reactions to loneliness and hostility on his first parish assignment. Evenings...
...magazine is an ingenious conglomeration--from the the heavy stylization of Edgar de Bresson's "A Chapter From A Novel," a stylization which seems remarkably successful in its design to obscure the fact that he has nothing to say, to a condescending essay on the local literary scene by Lowell Edmunds, who apparently has no conspicuous desire to report accurately. And there is "A Preposition," by Kurt Blankmeyer, chiefly distinguished by its first sentence, 596 words long, and also by its incomprehensibility...
Following these simple rules, the editors managed to put the current issue together despite a paucity of material. M. de Bresson, not long ago named as The Advocate's leader, really didn't need anyone to size him up, cleverly tossed in the requisite bons mots and deliciously designated one of his characters "Fabrice." (Who could ever forget La Chartreuse de Parme!) That the piece was a hopeless tangle of words strewn in a thousand directions, indeed, that few could or would understand its nineteenth century affectations, mattered little. There was a beauty in words...
Edgar M. de Bresson '60, of Lowell House, Paris, and New York City, was elected President of the Advocate for 1959-60 at a meeting yesterday...
...this context it is clear that at least one reviewer is not very happy with either the fragments of William Palmer's novel "Coyahique," or Edgar de Bresson's story "Down There Where It's Beautiful." The fragments of the novel never achieve any coherence, nor do their baffling lack of focus suggest any very obvious truth about the South American revolution which they portray. De Bresson's story, on the other hand, is not a fragment, but rather an epitome of sickness, a suitable inside for the hideous color combination of the cover. It is not that the story...