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Word: comico (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This comico-tragic instant brings to bear, like the point of a knife, the dilemma of 19th Century Jean Barois and the meaning of his story. It is the fulcrum of the cold, sharp "novel of ideas" which won Novelist Roger Martin du Gard his first critical respect when it was published in France in 1913. Martin du Gard went on to win a Nobel Prize (1937) for his masterwork, The Thibaults, a magnificent cycle of novels about French bourgeois life in the first two decades of the 20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Freethinker's Dilemma | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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