Word: gallimard
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...book is published by the respected Paris house of Gallimard, dedicated to Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, endorsed enthusiastically by Picasso. The typography is meticulous, the illustrations lavish. And the subject is a man who never was, Painter Jusep Torres Campalans...
...cannot stop running. Purchasing the French rights for Aub's "biography," simply titled Jusep Torres Campalans, Gallimard pulled out the stops. Needing a few sketches from J.T.C.'s "middle period," the publisher asked Aub to fill the gap. In moments, on the back of office stationery, he did. A big first printing of 5,000 is selling well, aided by Gallimard's deft exploitation of France's latest art world celebrity. Had he lived, J.T.C. would have been gratified...
...national institution since she burst on the Seine in a 1959 bestselling novel, Zazie has become almost as influential as Colette's Gigi at the height of La Belle Epoque. Critics have compared Zazie's creator-Raymond Queneau, a distinguished poet and chief reader at the Gallimard publishing house-to Flaubert, Stendhal, Hugo and Hegel. (One angry dissenter: Nobel Prize Laureate François Mauriac...
...Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature-the youngest man except Kipling ever so honored. With the money, he and his wife bought a Provencal farmhouse near the village of Lourmarin. There, with their 14-year-old twins, they put their marriage together again. Camus' friend Michel Gallimard, the nephew of his publisher, stopped last week with his wife and daughter on his way from Cannes to Paris. The car he was driving was a sleek Facel Vega, and Gallimard asked if Camus would like a ride to Paris...
...when one is not driving oneself." At 2 that afternoon, the car sped through the town of Villeneuve-la-Guyard, about 80 miles southeast of Paris. A few minutes later it lurched out of control, hurtled against one tree and smashed into another. When the police arrived, they found Gallimard fatally injured, his wife and daughter unconscious. In the back of the car, whose speedometer had stuck at 150 km. (94 m.p.h.), was the crushed and lifeless body of Albert Camus...