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MONSIEUR PAUL (256 pp.) - Henri Calet-Dutton...
Decades of French fiction have pictured the Parisian husband as an amatory gymnast hopping gallantly from marital bedroom to illicit boudoir. In his sixth novel, and second book to be translated into English, Henri Calet gets a fresh camera angle on the old shot. His hero, a Parisian named Thomas Schumacher, is 40, greying and deadly tired of leading the fashionable double life. He is still rather fond of the wife he has just divorced, and has come to hate the mistress who is the mother of his infant son Paul. What with shuttling regularly between the two, tired...
...fiction's report card, Monsieur Paul rates no top grades itself, but it has some virtues that more pretentious novels often lack. Author Calet writes a clean, colloquial prose in which he gets across his good-natured sympathy for his wayward hero. Working as close to his subject as a good bullfighter, he knows Tom's character and keeps it consistent. The diary and the novel end with Tom planning to run out on both his women and his son, but Author Calet explodes no moral dynamite under him. He seems to hope that son Paul will make...
...suffering," said Mrs. Warren last week "from 'Russian calet,' a disease brought on by nervous indigestion, and bad food. I shall go to a San Francisco hospital for treatment...
...under the charge of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. A building capable of accommodating twenty students was erected at a cost of four hundred pounds. It stood where Grays now stands. Only one Indian managed to get a degree. He bore the euphonious name of Calet Cheeshahteaumuck...
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