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...THIBAULTS-Roger Martin du Gard -Viking...
Dern your Hyde. You Gard - ella 'cause I gotta go to the John. Cohen, Cohen gone...
Eleven years ago a few U. S. readers paid $5 for copies of a two-volume novel translated from the French, forbiddingly titled The Thibaults. Its little-known writer was Roger Martin du Gard. The imposing boxed edition was made to look even less exciting by quotations from reviews that compared the book vaguely to the works of Balzac, Romain Rolland and Marcel Proust. Martin du Gard, said the New York Herald Tribune loftily, "reconciles at once the fastidious preciosity of Proust and Rolland's passionate evangelism with the traditional body of art." In a year when best sellers...
...result was that U. S. readers missed some excellent fiction and were taken by surprise when Roger Martin du Gard won the 1937 Nobel Prize for literature, which usually amounts to around $40,000, announced fortnight ago. In France seven of the projected ten novels of the cycle have been published, carrying the story to the outbreak of the War. Although they centre around the wealthy Thibault family, they have little in common with the long, naturalistic family chronicles, of which Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks is the prime example, that have become familiar to U. S. readers...
Since Wayne Gard writes in what critics have called the Little-Did-He-Think school of biography, his labors to enhance Bass's reputation as a bad man are largely in vain. Instead of a portrait of a bold gunman defying the law, readers are likely to think of Bass as a poor illiterate devil who was constantly falling into traps, robbing empty trains, making friends with spies. A tall Indiana boy, an orphan at 13, Bass was caught up in the social chaos that followed the Civil War, drifted South in Reconstruction days, worked in a Mississippi sawmill...