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...same as writing a book," said Duc. "One must be persistent and wily...
...writing game-although his name for it is: he goes on a brief, illicit sexual romp he calls a fête. His worldly-wise wife Léone ("I have made love with many men") indulges his impulses. When Lucie, who adores bop records and Duc's novels, arrives at the novelist's villa outside Paris, Due gets set for a fête. Since all French triangles are parallelograms, Lucie brings her husband Jean-Marc, a poet. The couples talk shop: How many past lovers and mistresses has each had, and how will the affair between...
...Duc's real rendezvous is with the calendar. He is interesting because he is dated in ways that link him with Hemingway's generation of writers-Malraux, Koestler and Vailland himself. The Hemingway hero is a romantic, but he prides himself on being a guardian of fact, a realistic reporter. Says Duc: "I try not to make things up." He thinks of life as a campaign in which he has won certain medals, all of which he insists on explaining. Duc has been decorated for being in and out of Communism (like Author Vailland), in the French underground...
Cult of Experience. Hemingway's generation was perhaps the last to find technology romantic. There is an entire subplot liaison between Duc and his Citroën. What with cars and guns, women and wars, the Hemingway hero is always counting his good times on his fingers and telling why they went bad. The great good time in 20th century fiction, and the origin of the fête idea, was the three-day fiesta of the running of the bulls at Pamplona in The Sun Also Rises. Fetes end, Due tells himself, when there is a fall from...
...first to escape Sarah's whip hand, hailed his freedom with debts and extravagances totaling some half a million pounds. Charles died in 1758 in the Seven Years' War, a few months after his precipitous withdrawal by sea from Cherbourg had given France's Duc 'Ai-guillon the exquisite triumph of sending after him "a vessel under a flag of truce to restore the Duke of Marlborough's silver teaspoons which he had left behind in his hurry...