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...ambitions of becoming a novelist or an epic poet. Instead he wrote mostly critical essays, which soon established him as a powerful influence among English intellectuals. In 1939 he founded the monthly magazine Horizon, which became a literary showcase, publishing the likes of T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and Andre Gide...
...becoming the 71st recipient of the Prix Goncourt, Laine joins a distinguished list of former winners that includes Proust, Malraux and Beauvoir. He also, however, removes his name from an equally distinguished list of former losers: Colette, Cocteau, Gide, Camus and Sartre. Novelist Françoise Mallet-Joris, a member of the Goncourt jury, defended its spotty record last week by pointing out that "we are judging a book by a young author who might have written only one or two earlier" -a process that is apparently as unreliable as judging a book by its cover...
...first-rate novelist himself, Malraux confided that he is no longer writing fiction. "Of the great novelists of my generation," he asks, "who is? Hemingway did not finish his last novel. Gide did not write a real novel in the last ten years of his life. Sartre abandoned the novel. So have...
...find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession with the price and private parts of an incredible array of consorts. (As the saying went in London when the diaries were circulated, "Gomorrah, begorra!") Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham, Verlaine, Gide and Proust are not judged today on the basis of their sexual proclivities; nor, argues Inglis, should Casement...
...lovers generally can be calculated along an axis: those who like Women in Love intersects the line of those who don't. Those who like it usually don't like Godard, Resnais, exponents of the New Sensibility; they prefer Elvira Madigan to The Emigrants, Tolstoy to Proust, Flaubert to Gide. They choose oreos over hydrox, Pepsi over Coke, The Beatles over Traffic, Ritz over Saltines, Lily Pulitzer over Design Research, Cliffie peaches over Cliffie limes, and so on and so forth. Allston Cinema...