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Upton Sinclair; France's Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, ex-Communists André Malraux and André Gide. First place went to Steinbeck, who "jumped from the camp of progress and love of humanity into the camp of frantic reaction, barbarism and cannibalism...
Conscience Makes Cowards. Like American Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles and French Albert (The Plague) Camus, Italian Ennio Flaiano has found Africa a fertile field in which to cultivate an existentialist viewpoint. The unnamed lieutenant who narrates The Short Cut feels that he was the victim of events; even his murder of the Ethiopian girl seemed a deed to which he was driven by forces beyond his control. But his conscience worked against him, carried him into a feverish world where he became convinced that his victim had given him leprosy. When his careful inquiries about the disease aroused...
...Innocent. The Short Cut retells an old existentialist moral tale. In it, every man is a hell unto himself, enslaved by uncontrollable events, victimized by his own exaggerated moral interpretations of them. After weeks of living in the bush, The Short Cut's hero drags himself back to camp only to. find that nobody has heard about his disease, nobody has reported the shooting of the native girl, and everybody, including himself, is booked for home...
Radcliffe Idler players will turn existentialist with their major fall production of Jean Paul Sartre's "No Exit" December 1 and 2 in Agassiz Theater. The presentation of the modern morality play will be a new experiment for the group...
...Paris, a blonde authoress-movie director, Nicole Vedrès, was shooting a film with an all-star cast: Painter Pablo Picasso, Novelist André Gide, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, Architect Le Corbusier, Writer Jacques Prévert, Atomic Scientist Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Their roles required them to enact themselves at work and at play, chatting about what the world was coming to. Said Picasso, who played quiet scenes with Gide (see cut) and mugged with Prévert: "We had a terrific time...