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...Author. Tall, pale, chronically ailing George Orwell, 42, leads an unspectacular domestic life in the suburbs of London. A critic, essayist and novelist (A Clergyman's Daughter), Orwell contributes (in Britain) to his schoolmate Critic Cyril Connolly's highbrow monthly Horizon and to the leftist Tribune. In the U.S. his London Letter to Manhattan's Trot-skyoid quarterly Partisan RevIew has contained some of the war's most trenchant reporting on British politics, the Home Guard (Orwell was a member), black-market shenanigans...
...because he could find no other lodging, partly because it did not matter: he has a bohemian preference for unpretentious surroundings; in Paris, the literary lion makes his den in the dingy, unheated Hotel Louisiane. Few Americans had heard even vaguely of earnest, ebullient Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, essayist and prophet of the philosophy of life known as "Existentialism." But more were likely to become aware of him and his message...
...UNQUIET GRAVE - "Palinurus" (Cyril Connolly]-Harper ($2.50). Cyril Connolly is a British writer of a type almost unknown in the U.S.: an essayist (Enemies of Promise), critic and editor whose influence is as great as his output is small. During the past six years, his bright literary monthly, Horizon, has become must reading for British intellectuals. In The Unquiet Grave, Critic Connolly lets his sizable group of followers down. He serves up a bitter salad of clever preciosity and engaging self-pity: a collection of notes about love, art and religion jotted down while he was on fire-watching duty...
Died. Felix Salten, 76, Viennese essayist, novelist, dramatist, known in the U.S. only for his sometimes touching, sometimes saccharine books about animals (most famed: Bambi, Disneyized in 1942) ; after long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
Died. Thomas Burke, 59, British novelist and essayist, whose most famed book, Limehouse Nights (cinemadapted into D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms'), was a lurid capitalization on his orphaned boyhood in London's dockside slums; after an operation; in London...