Word: claudel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PAUL CLAUDEL AND ANDRÉ GIDE (299 pp.)-Pantheon...
...turn of the century, Paul Claudel and André Gide were beginning literary careers, Claudel as poet-playwright, Gide as novelist. In temperament and opinion, they were opposites: Claudel a zealous Roman Catholic, Gide a tormented doubter who could neither accept nor dismiss the Christian faith. The two men became cautious friends, and in 1899 began a correspondence which sputtered and stormed until 1926. Their letters, now published in English for the first time, give a fascinating picture of two first-rate minds locked in a long quarrel about ultimate realities...
...Claudel enjoyed great spiritual confidence; he implored, harried, badgered Gide to become a Catholic. Claudel worked in the French diplomatic service, but no matter where he was-in Tientsin, Prague or Tokyo-he bombarded Gide with letters. For a time Gide was shaken. In 1907 he wrote in his Journal that, after a letter from Claudel, "I. . . have trouble getting back to work...
...performers spent more than two hours in French Poet Paul Claudel's leapfrogging account, translated into English, of the Discoverer's life. Sang Columbus...
Rimbaud . . . did not only start fastidious saints like Paul Claudel upon their spiritual career, but is himself something of a patron saint of the significant modern poetry in all countries. If such a world-shaking record deserves nothing better than a sewer simile, one cannot help preferring the sewer to the sterilized Olympus which inspired your unneurotic and un-debauched literary standard in the present case...