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...sensation of Paris (an earlier De Beauvoir novel has just appeared in the U.S.-TIME, Feb. 7). In December Les Mandarins (roughly, The Intellectuals) won France's fattest literary prize, the Goncourt. Novelist Albert Camus and Author de Beauvoir's great and good friend, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, are thinly disguised principals. "These new Platos," one critic wrote, "talk slang like street cleaners, express themselves as sewer diggers no longer express themselves...
...pair of seconds, one of them his onetime commanding officer in the Free French Air Force. Actually, duels (with pistols), though often banned in France's gallant and tempestuous history, are by no means uncommon even in present-day France, particularly with newspaper editors, theater critics and existentialist painters. But the Foreign Minister's involvement threatened a government scandal...
Life Is Death. Mortal man's proud answers to Fosca are put in his mouth by France's Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir is merely the medium. All good existentialists believe that when they die, they will die altogether: but they argue that precisely because man has no God to look after him, no Heaven to look forward to and no way of escaping death, he is so much the greater, because his hope and courage light the absurd void to which he is condemned. Mortal man, in fact, is forever alive, whereas immortal Count Fosca...
...picture gives Michener's answer: People back home "act the way they do because they're there. You . . . go on doing your job because you're here. It's just as simple as that." This, though Paramount may shudder to hear it said, is an existentialist answer, and surely a poor one to die on-though just as surely many a man has had to die on it for want of a better reason in his heart...
...look for symbols, moral or religious, in Ernest Hemingway's literary works? For me, Hemingway is the foremost outdoor existentialist of the New World...