Word: delteil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ONCE THERE WAS A MAN NAPOLEON-Joseph Delteil-Translated by Lewis Galantiere-Covici, Friede...
Author Joseph Delteil has not written an ordinary biography of Napoleon. After you read this book you may well doubt whether Author Delteil could write an ordinary book about anything. Once There Was a Man Napoleon is a sometimes thundering, sometimes blustering, sometimes mellifluous narrative poem written in prose (it reads as if it had been exceedingly well translated). The hero is not so much the man as the idea, Napoleon. Not that Author Delteil warps the facts of history; but he gives them an original and Delteilish emphasis. Napoleon's driving dream, he says, was to outstrip Alexander...
...Author Delteil is only 35, but he is already high in reputation in his native France. An early book of verse won a prize from the French Academy; his Jeanne D'Arc won the Femina Vie Heureuse prize. A great Rabelaisian scholar, he is a hard worker, socially timid. Says he: "I am a citizen of the world, and a man of flesh and blood. To write is to make love. I place the senses higher than the brain. I should like all my books to provide the same pleasure as a woman gives. I have five senses...
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