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...staging, he became a popular as well as a critical success in later years with the postwar productions of his operas, Christophe Colomb (music by Darius Milhaud) and Joan at the Stake (music by Arthur Honegger). Claudel insisted, in his 27-year correspondence with his friend, Novelist André Gide (The Correspondence Between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide) that art must bear witness to Christ, assailed modern literary introspectionists as "horrible little terriers who put their paws on one and make one feel the convulsive shivering which animates their wretched bodies...
This trend is not new, nor is it likely to become standard procedure for future novelists. In the Thirties the group labeled "Esoterics" practiced it with varying degrees of transient success. Andre Gide in France, by giving his works the title of novels perhaps broadened beyond all reason the size qualifications of a novelist. These works are really not novels at all, but allegorical essays, lacking "mass" and concentrating fully on style and theme...
Cynic as Hero. At the side of such intellectuals as Andre Gide, he praised Communism incessantly, but was careful not to join the Communist Party. He got a job as correspondent for Moscow's Izvestia during the Spanish civil war, dutifully penned the Stalin line, but thought so little of it that, at the approach of World War II, he tried to get out of Europe by the Zionist route. Failing, he returned to Moscow by the Communist route and became one of Stalin's favorite thunderers. Throughout World War II he poured an unceasing flow of hate...
Connolly operated on a single ground rule, "the pursuit of quality." He pursued and printed such first-rate writers as T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden. Even in wartime, Connolly kept Horizon's standards up and its voice down, made the magazine a kind of semiprecious touchstone of the arts. Earnest literati in England and the U.S. used it to deck their coffee tables and to restock their mental shelves. In The Golden Horizon, Connolly picks a scant 600 pages to represent the original 10,000. The result suggests that Horizon often...
...contrast, the sunniest tale in the book is by that late great skeptic, André Gide, who tells his version of how Theseus bested the Minotaur. The thesis of Gide's Theseus is that the cave of the Minotaur is seductive as well as labyrinthine, a lotus land of indolence and confusion which exists in every man's mind more surely than it ever did in ancient Crete, and that each man must sally forth from it after slaying his personal monsters of fear and convention. In his serene, neoclassic way. Gide puts a French accent...