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Similarly, Comp Lit 166 will be modified to combine description and the name of the lecturer, becoming "Avant Guerard," and Slavic 155 will be reduced to "Tolstoyevsky...
Buechler, who was president of the "Advocate" for six months last year, studied under Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory,, and Albert J. Guerard, professor of English, and is currently traveling in Europe...
Actually, Guerard spends less time in the school year writing than he does aiding the students in his small creative writing course. "Often a student will come in thinking he wants to write like Hemingway, and my job is to help him discover what he really wants to do," he says. Students whom he has helped say that he has an extraordinary understanding of the creative process and that he is a hard but fair critic, with a detached, exacting, often cold attitude. At the same time, they say, he has an amazing sympathy and will always take hours...
...While Guerard may help others to write fiction during the school term, he saves his own writing for summers. "I couldn't start a novel during school. As a teacher, you're a respectable member of society, but if your inner life were so thoroughly respectable, you couldn't write at all. You have to regain a certain amount of naivete to write a novel, and at the same time, you have to break out of your academic shell." He adds that "a writer is a combination of audacity and innocence...
Next year, Guerard will bring these paradoxical traits of a writer into use as he takes a sabbatical to write a novel in Europe. He is not sure exactly where he will live, for as he says, "I don't like the idea of going to a predictable place." And in a sense, whether he is working with the French Resistance or watching the basketball team, whether he is writing fiction or criticizing it, Albert J. Guerard has been to very few predictable places...