Word: fernands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Father. Fernand Gerard Doucin is a punctual insomniac who wakes promptly at 5 a.m. and gives his entire life an hour's third degree before lapsing back into troubled sleep. He often wakes in a sweat from a repetitive dream in which he bashes in his father's head with an ax. Like most of his dreams, this is quite out of keeping with Fernand's daytime self. By day he is a timid bank clerk with little hope and no desire for promotion, and equally small fears of being fired. He is dumpy, bald...
...course, nothing disgusts Fernand more than himself. 'His ruthless 5 a.m. self-analysis reveals a life as barren, lonely and pockmarked as the face of the moon. Fernand has lost all hope of heaven, but retains a superstitious fear of hell. His sole deity is the "phenobarbitone-God." Only two passions dominate him: laziness and cigarette smoking. He lies on his bed by the hour looking at the wall. Indeed, the only decision Novelist Dutourd puts to his hero in the whole course of this Novel is whether or not to get up and go to the bathroom. Fernand...
Dust for a Washout. Though he calls his own life a "washout," Fernand sees nothing better to envy in the lives of others. To him, ambition, love, fame, beauty, wealth are all illusions before the all-encompassing reality of death ("Dust is the messenger of God in the world")-"All is vanity" is not exactly a new philosophy, but it is a valid one. However, in Ecclesiastes it is a philosophy to live by, enhancing the precious value of life's passing moments. In Five A.M., it is interpreted as degrading life to the level of a futile, nihilistic...
Unlike the other cubist greats - Picasso, Braque, and the late Fernand Leger - who had to unlearn their earlier styles, young Juan Gris (pronounced Greece) had had only a rudimentary training in Madrid when he moved into the Rue Ravignan in 1906, to be near Picasso. In on cubism from its birth, Gris developed his own style naturally on cubist tenets...
...would wind up on the floor. Last week Chicago's Art Institute was offering a look at that brightly decked future: 13 limited-edition (ten copies of each) rugs designed by such artists as Pablo Picasso, Joán Miró, Jean Lurçat, the late Fernand Léger and U.S. Mobile Sculptor Alexander Calder...