Word: existentialist
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...Chicago's seamy-side Novelist Nelson (A Walk on the Wild Side) Algren avidly snapped at some old-bone subjects dangled before him in Manhattan by a World-Telegram and Sunman. Of his erstwhile great and good friend, French Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who unwarily dedicated her latest existentialist idyl, The Mandarins, to Algren: "A good female novelist ought to have enough to write about without digging up her own private garden. For me, it was just a routine relationship, and she's blown it up." Of the present "pretty bad" state of U.S. fiction, as exemplified...
...Proud and the Beautiful* (Kings-ley-lnternational), a French film based on an original treatment by Jean Paul Sartre, is an existentialist soap opera-a sort of Magnificent Obsession with a French accent...
When they finally paired off two years ago, Jacques' love letters to Denise were steeped in philosophical maundering. Like his existentialist masters, Jacques believed that thought must be carried into action. It was all very well, he suggested, for Denise to say she loved him, but what about the proof? "To merit my love," said young Jacques, "you must go from suffering to suffering." He cited a passage in D'Annunzio in which a jealous husband kills the child his wife has had by another man, and asked, "Now, isn't that beautiful?" Denise agreed...
...married Anne's wayward daughter and has decided to publish an intellectual weekly with Husband Robert. For them, writing and talking are food and drink. But Anne, not so easily nourished, comes close to suicide-not only because of her broken affair, but because she has that old existentialist idea that life is empty. It is just here, in the very last paragraph of The Mandarins, that Priestess de Beauvoir chooses to suggest that existentialism is not simply a philosophy of pessimism. Just because life is essentially meaningless, she seems to say, it does not follow that each...
...author tosses her symbols with a conjurer's cynical eye for the audience. The book is brilliant in detail, lit by a woman's sharp eye for gesture and the shape and condition of others' clothes and faces. In between the dilemmas and existentialist mazes, there is a great tragicomic talent at work, and readers who fail to take a pass or two at Murdoch's Minotaur will miss some fine and frenzied...