Word: gide
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...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...
...interest in this subject matter. The French have always enjoyed dramas that give free play to philosophical disputation. And modern French dramatists, with the shining example of Racine before them, have been especially drawn to ancient Greek legends. The trend started at the turn of the century with Gide, who wrote stage pieces about Philoctetes, Prometheus, and Oedipus. Montherlant turn-to Pasipha*e, and Cocteau dramatized Antigone, Orpheus, and Oedipus. Claudel turned to Proteus, and did a version of Aeschylus' entire Orestes trilogy. Giraudoux turned to Amphitryon, Electra, and the Trojan War, while Sartre refashioned the Oresteia...
While Malraux sweltered, awaiting a hearing on his appeal, Clara hurried back to Paris where she got a petition from impressionable intellectuals urging the French colonial government to spare him. The signatures included André Gide, François Mauriac, André Maurois, Louis Aragon, André Breton and old Anatole France. The upshot was a reduction of Malraux's sentence to one year, which colonial authorities quietly did not bother to enforce...