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...life which, if no longer world-jarring, is at least meaningful to himself and a few others. The heyday of the Victorian novel is past; the effort to capture the rush of perishable existence died with Joyce and Lawrence; the author-as-hero is gone with Camus and Hemingway; and in their place is now the professional writer, making a living like anyone else. This is a truthful image because, as Updike remarks in "One Big Interview," our age is a sedate...
...publishes monthly newspapers in Paris, Mexico City, New York and Buenos Aires, and it issues passports, which are useful only if the bearer limits his travel to Mexico and Yugoslavia. The government also bestows medals upon Defenders of the Republic. The decoration has been awarded to French Philosopher Albert Camus, British Employment Secretary Michael Foot and Trades Union Leader Jack Jones. To finance their activities, the Republicans rely upon the generosity of supporters willing to buy government bonds that are based on the Civil War value of the peseta (5 to the dollar) and backed by no known resources...
...Orwell, had their lives and work shaped irrevocably by their experiences in Spain. "As a militiaman," George Orwell later wrote in Homage to Catalonia, "one was a soldier against Franco, but one was also a pawn in an enormous struggle that was being fought out between political theories." Albert Camus observed afterwards: "It was in Spain that men learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many men, the world over, regard the Spanish...
...labors spent/ Are like a man upon a journey sent/ Along a wall that's sheer and steep and endless, dressed/ With bits of broken bottles on its crest"). Part is due to the writer's stoic career. Like an earlier Nobel laureate, Albert Camus, Montale was a bitter antiFascist. His quiet refusal to truckle to Mussolini cost him a sinecure as library executive. Throughout World War II he supported himself by translating an astonishing variety of writers, among them Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill and Dorothy Parker. A childless widower, Montale now lives in Milan, where...
...Picnic at the Radcliffe Yard. Another casual get-together annually spoiled by pretensions. Aside from avoiding those people who refuse to let the topic of conversation stray beyond the recently read German translation of Camus, you now must contend with the group of Wellesley women carted in to appease the males. The beginning of open exploitation season for women at Harvard...