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PLUCHE, OR THE LOVE OF ART by Jean Dutourd. 278 pages. Doubleday...
...prophets and saints, and art has its Pluches-aesthetic Jesuits, Leathernecks of creativity, defenders of aristocratic art-soul against bourgeois art-stomach, men of passion and appetite, of sublime ups and leaden downs. Pluche is a talented, unfashionable, moderately successful painter who is down-or, in Jean Dutourd's words, "chained down in hell amid the circle of the frivolous damned, where everything is mere diversion, where one only hears rank stupidities, where one only says stupidities oneself, where one is bored to death without ever dying...
...HORRORS OF LOVE, by Jean Dutourd. Using an ill-fated May-to-December romance, Satirist Dutourd skillfully and venomously explores the French character...
...HORRORS OF LOVE, by Jean Dutourd. Using an ill-fated May-to-December romance as an excuse, Satirist Dutourd skillfully and venomously explores the French character...
...incestuously inspired destruction of her father's mistress. By now the author is so celebrated that Cheval's opening night drew the French Rothschild family, as well as large segments of lesser society folk right down to the cafe variety. The critics went away ecstatic. Wrote Jean Dutourd in France-Soir: "This play is charming, brilliant, tender, intelligent and of a special sort of comic turn of mind...