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Author W. C. Heinz, 48, is a former Manhattan sportswriter whose two previous books were about boxing. A Literary Guild selection for March, The Surgeon presumably reflects a doctor's-eye view of the profession, since the author's foreword expresses his debt to a dozen men who cannot be named "because of the anonymity which the medical profession prefers to impose upon its members...
...evening's main feature, the guests were marshaled into the gold-curtained East Room, where Actor Fredric March read excerpts from the works of three dead Nobel laureates. First came the heavily sarcastic foreword to Sinclair Lewis' Main Street: "Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters...
...novel's title, as Mauriac explains in the foreword, derives from a remark by Poet Paul Valery. who said he had never written a novel because he could not bear to set down the banal first words, "The Marquise went out at five." The book is to be taken as an answer to Valery's implied charge that plain statement of fact is dull. "A pure exercise in virtuosity, you might say at first glance," says Mauriac. "Yet never gratuitous. But how to exhaust the gifts of reality?" Mauriac, who explains that he prefers literal exactitude to literature...
Djuna Barnes has long been the dark lady of the New Directions anthologies, and in the '30s, when difficult writers were in vogue, her shadowy short novel Nightwood won the loftiest of testimonials. Every earnest Lit. undergraduate read the New Classics edition, with its foreword by T. S. Eliot praising its "great achievement of style, beauty of phrasing, brilliance of wit and characterization, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy...
...these lapses are understandable after all-Fleming is not the author. As he archly explains in a foreword, he found the manuscript on his desk one morning-"the first-person story of a young woman, evidently beautiful and not unskilled in the arts of love," who was involved "both perilously and romantically with the same James Bond whose secret-service exploits I myself have written from time to time...