Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Empire. At his death, 20 years later, Robert Musil had completed 2,000 pages. His work, The Man Without Qualities, was still unfinished, but he had written enough to persuade enthusiastic European critics that Musil had been at work on one of the most searching post-mortems of modern fiction. Now, something like the first fifth of his novel has been translated into English...
Decades of French fiction have pictured the Parisian husband as an amatory gymnast hopping gallantly from marital bedroom to illicit boudoir. In his sixth novel, and second book to be translated into English, Henri Calet gets a fresh camera angle on the old shot. His hero, a Parisian named Thomas Schumacher, is 40, greying and deadly tired of leading the fashionable double life. He is still rather fond of the wife he has just divorced, and has come to hate the mistress who is the mother of his infant son Paul. What with shuttling regularly between the two, tired...
...fiction's report card, Monsieur Paul rates no top grades itself, but it has some virtues that more pretentious novels often lack. Author Calet writes a clean, colloquial prose in which he gets across his good-natured sympathy for his wayward hero. Working as close to his subject as a good bullfighter, he knows Tom's character and keeps it consistent. The diary and the novel end with Tom planning to run out on both his women and his son, but Author Calet explodes no moral dynamite under him. He seems to hope that son Paul will make...
...change of pace as well as some changes of place serve to bolster the Commencement issue of the Advocate and make the magazine a better-balanced literary effort than it has usually been in the past. The balance, however, is mainly achieved through the fiction, for the poetry on the whole conforms to the magazine's traditionally esoteric and personalized pattern...
...delightful reading at times. The ending is a bit off-key; the improbable coincidence leading to a happy ending goes poorly with the matter-of-fact tenor of the rest of the story. But the story is enjoyable and should show both local writers and editors that light fiction has a place in the Advocate...