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...Russian Revolution only to leave him an orphan in Poland when he was eight Family friends sent him through Jesuit schools m Belgium, where he began to study art. After wartime service with the Foreign Legion in Tunisia, the demobilized artist returned to Paris with a mistress, Jeannine Guilloux. Often he painted her skeletal beauty. "I wondered what it was I had painted," he mused, a living dead creature or a dead living creature...
...Hostage, Airman Antoine de St. Exupery (missing in action, 1944) feels "so weary of controversy, of the opinionated, of fanaticism" that only one small ray of comfort remains in his heart-a memory of times when he exchanged smiles with people. In A Man and a Woman, Louis Guilloux described a quarrel between a businessman and his wife-a quarrel which is hair-raising precisely because it is caused by nothing but sheer boredom. In his two contributions, Jean-Paul Sartre, France's latest light-o'-letters, fills his fountain pen with embalming fluid and blandly describes...
...wickedness of Paris has been a preoccupation of French novelists ever since Rabelais. But if the new generation of French novelists is to be trusted, Paris is austere compared with the provinces. In books like Guilloux's Bitter Victory, Romains' The Proud and the Meek, the small cities of the Republic seethe with vice, scandal, adultery, perversion that are all the more conspicuous because of the peaceful calm of the surrounding countryside. In Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon, continuing the panoramic novel he began last year in The Bells of Basel, gives the most lurid picture of provincial passion...
...Paris 65-year-old Henri Guilloux, cautious chauffeur to the late King Edward VII of England, suddenly ran amok, murdered a neighbor, hanged his wife, killed himself...
BITTER VICTORY-Louis Guilloux-McBride...