Word: gide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rounding out this volume are Camus' critical essays, including those on Sartre, Ignazio Silone, Melville, Gide and Faulkner, and three interviews that he gave over the years. In one of these interviews, he was asked what compliment most annoyed him. He replied: "Honesty, conscience, humanity-you know, all the modern mouthwasnes." Yet, these qualities best describe the man who struggled so ardently to understand what it was to be simply...
...novelist, the private man loaded down with personal problems that he must defeat-or be defeated by. This is the Baldwin who with his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, marvelously evoked a Harlem boyhood nurtured in a storefront church. It is the Baldwin who, with post-Gide candor, courageously rendered the homosexual experience in his second novel, Giovanni's Room. But this is also the writer who six years ago turned out the deeply disappointing novel, Another Country, a lengthy excursion into the world of bisexuality...
...nonfiction is the literary biography, notably Andrew Turnbull's Thomas Wolfe and Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway (Papa is also the subject of Irwin Blacker's novel, Standing on a Drum). Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, Lytton Strachey, Richard Wright, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nathanael West, André Gide and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also get full-length treatment; and there will be an autobiography from André Malraux, a second volume of Bertrand Russell memories, and a third of Harold Nicolson diaries...
...with some 500 novels to his credit, Georges Simenon continues to demonstrate that he is a writer of extraordinary range-from murder-a-month Inspector Maigret thrillers to some of the most original psychodrama since Gide. These days his tone is quieter and more autumnal than it used to be; he is thinking hard about old age. His latest book suggests Edward Albee loose among the geriatric set, a Virginia Woolf on Medicare...
...like a sense of connection with other people and other things. I like to drink, of course, because of the sense of conviviality and celebration alcohol induces. . . . I don't believe lying around in a chemically induced trance is going to effect any changes for the better. As Gide said, 'Lucidity is my disease...