Word: cochons
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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OPEN ALL NIGHT-Paul Morand- Seltzer ($2.00). A brilliant, sardonic mind vivisects post-War Europe with the knives of irony and folly. Five adventures, five nights- Catalonian, Turkish, Roman, Parisian, Hungarian-five exotically unexpected women and their dealings with a cochon international. The distorted and rapid scene of modern life is seen as if under the concentrated and sudden light of successive explosions of flashlight-powder; incredible life-histories are compressed into a few pages. Morand is one of the most individual of modern French writers and this is the first American translation of his work-a translation, which...