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...Goncourt Academy, and their sole function is that of awarding 5,000 francs to the author of "the year's best work of fiction." There are supposed to be ten members at the luncheon, but the venerable revolutionary writer, Lucien Descaves, refuses to attend meetings with Royalist Leon Daudet, always mails in his vote. After lunch, the Academy's youngest member announces the prizewinner to waiting newspapermen. Within an hour red bands marked Prix Goncourt have been wrapped around copies of the winning book in Paris bookstores, because the Goncourt Prize, though it involves a small cash award...
Last December one member of the Goncourt Academy died, and the remaining nine, most of them well above 70, disagreed about his successor. Candidates included Humorist Tristan Bernard, Novelists Colette and Jules Romains. But for 23 years Leon Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing...
...slim, dark youth ducked under Frot's guard, seized his wiry black beard and all but yanked it out by the roots. Republican Guardsmen rushed in, hustled Frot and beard-puller away. The beard-puller turned out to be Francois, 21-year-old son of rowdy Royalist Leon Daudet...
...Author Céline makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone. Many a reader will find nothing handy to throw. Shocking to the Goncourt Academicians mainly for stylistic reasons (says Defender Daudet: ''It is written in Parisian colloquial speech, a very special language, superficially lazy yet fundamentally exact"). Journey to the End of the Night will shock many a U.S. reader by its almost unrelieved unsentimentality. Physiological rather than pornographic, Author Céline might rest his case...
...wide attention and comment. In this book he flays not our fiscal system but the appearance of our bills. At the same time he offers suggestions for redesigning them. Other volumes of note are his Balzae's "Droll Stories," Poes "Tales," a charming little edition in two volumes of Daudet's "Tartarin of Tarascon," Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and H. G. Wells' "Time Machine," which contains a new introduction by the author...