Word: heros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hero. General Thomas' life was almost sensationally unexciting. Even when he was involved in great events, as he often was, some strange internal deflation of spirit seemed to rob them of all drama. Heavy, ponderous, slow-spoken, squarejawed, he shrank from anything that smacked of heroics...
This psychological cripple, whom the reader meets after his ship has been sunk and he has drifted on to one of the Solomon Islands, is the hero of War Correspondent Ira Wolfert's intricate second novel...
...describe a battle in its coherent entirety while focusing attention on a few men fighting in it. But as a novelist, he cannot bring to life the feelings of men in war with the same vividness that he brings a battle to life. Towards his sad weakling of a hero, whom Wolfert tiresomely philosophizes over, the reader can feel only the sort of minor pity one feels for a sick puppy...
...young (38), unknown French professor of philosophy in 1943 when he published Being and Nothingness, a 700-page look at modern man's predicament. So well did he echo the prevailing French despair that he became a Parisian hero, quit his teaching job and unleashed a flood of controversial writing that included novels, short stories, plays, essays and off-the-cuff journalism. Almost all of it has been a clinical, repetitious elaboration of his grim teaching: wretched man comes into this rotten world through no fault of his own. The concept of God, argues Sartre, is an irrational delusion...
...hero of Erostratus expresses his morbid hatred of his fellows through a completely senseless murder. The longest and most ambitious story is The Childhood of a Leader. This is Sartre's cold dissection of a French industrialist's son, showing how his social and sexual inadequacies led him to the assuagements of anti-Semitism and a superpatriotism...