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...Albert Guerard has served up an omelette of Francophilia--and as a critical handbook on the limitations of his adopted style, his newest novel has a certain merit...
There is a little action, a climactic scene, Anthony's self-realization ("by means of self-betrayals," notes Guerard on the jacket cover), and his whipped-dog return to the chambermaid...
...Author Guerard (The Hunted, Maquisard), 43, is a Texas-born Francophile who is currently professor of English at Harvard. He writes with a Gallic coolness and clarity, and with the sure French eye for the inhuman qualities of the human condition. This novel, his fifth, has both wit and wisdom, but his major characters are fated to sound like literary echoes: charming as Christiane is, she has been met before more charmingly in the pages of Colette; Anthony, in his bedridden sloth, his antisocial despairs, his wounded intellectual cries, has slouched through a long line of novels ranging from Ivan...
...BYSTANDER (205 pp.)-Albert J. Guerard-Little, Brown...
...already distended covers of the Advocate are further separated by three reviews of books by former English J students. Professor Guerard also contributes a discussion of these former proteges. The cover itself is less obstreperous than usual, an attractive product by Willard Midgette...