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...CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PAUL CLAUDEL AND ANDRÉ GIDE (299 pp.)-Pantheon...
...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...
...hoped to be a great painter some day. But after World War I, in which he was wounded, he found a new enthusiasm growing within him; he began to spend more & more time wandering through Paris churches and reading the religious works of Léon Bloy and Paul Claudel. At last he made his decision. In 1925, at the age of 27, Pierre Couturier put away his brushes and became a Dominican monk...
Grey-haired French Conductor Charles Münch, a conductor of the windmill school, lifted his baton and the cellos rumbled out a dark and ominous theme. Poet Claudel had first tied his heroine to the stake, then let her mind wander through agonizing flashbacks: memories of the coarse yells of the mob, a howling dog, rolling drums. Standout scene: Joan's trial. Claudel and Honegger make her judges animals, with Porcus, a pig, presiding. Porcus (dramatically sung by Tenor Joseph Laderoute) screams his charges and denunciations, and the chorus howls "Hérétique! . . . Sorci...