Word: existentialists
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...sits wringing his hands, unable to understand what has happened to him, is it not good news for him to be told that he is expiating his own fault?" Meanwhile, the Communist is busy preaching the Communist way out, whether it leads to freedom or not. The presumptive existentialist, however, keeps his own counsel. For Volume III, he affects to go along with the Communist: "I've nothing to lose," he murmurs. "A fellow has to do something...
...report was more shocking to Parisian intellectuals than the original incident had been to the worshipers. To many, it sounded like a fair description of any eager young existentialist. So shrill, in fact, was the outcry that tendinous, hyperemotive Michel Mourre was released on bail, has written (for a couple of French newspapers) the memoirs of his autodidactic life as a Dominican student, as an existentialist, and as a bohemian...
What did he call himself? Williams wasn't sure. "I don't know," he said. "Wyndham Lewis called me an existentialist, but I don't know what that means . . . I suppose I'm a human being-but that sounds pompous, doesn...
...Seine. The Twenty-Fifth Hour catches the despair of many a European in the aftermath of World War II, amid the shards of a broken Europe. By so doing, it has unquestionably won itself a place in the literary history of the times. But like many another European, including Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, Author Gheorghiu now admits that even despair is not without its choices. A fortnight ago, living and writing in a Europe that has ceased to be a concentration camp, he told an American correspondent: "As a European I cannot accept your civilization, but I pray morning, noon...
Uncle Giorgio, Anisetta and Author Menen's fans have to go through a lot more before Aquila sees the light. After the professor comes a French existentialist count, after him a comic American from Ohio, and then a comic psychiatrist. Finally, to Uncle Giorgio's great relief, Aquila is stung into fighting a duel with another comic American-a Southerner, suh, that only a British writer could dream up-and the pair leap into each other's arms. The book ends two years later with Aquila hugging his wife and benignly watching baby shred up his books...