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...genteel love to a young Russian and gets the whole sexual dialectic thrown at his head; even so, he thinks: "If enthusiasm and integrity are still to be found in this world, it is in Moscow that they must be sought." From the Genoa conference Jerphanion's friend Jallez writes him of the Russian delegates "they give me the same feeling as pickpockets at a fair or crooks in a casino." But Jallez, too, is swept by the hope of visiting Russia soon...
...Jallez comes in by way of Odessa. Romains' account of the run-around the Russians give him is as icily slick as the run-around itself. But his reporting of the famine is harder to swallow whole. The drought and the European blockade, Jallez finds, are far less responsible for the famine than the subhuman corruptness of the local officials. This and other arraignments, just or not, are set down in much too general and unqualified terms. But the volume ends with much, obviously (and as usual), still to be said...
...Sweets of Life is a journal kept for a season by Pierre Jallez, the young poet through whom Romains represents everything he holds sane and prolific in art and in life. Having saved some money from newspaper work just after the war, Jallez has decided to spend the winter at Nice...
...story is just as leisured and simple. Jallez states its theme: "In the world that the war has left us-for how long I wonder -love, surely, is the least futile of all human activities." He has two light, classical affairs: a disciplined friendship with a cultured, unhappily married woman; a no less disciplined and beautifully told love affair with a young working-class girl of the Old Town. Lyrical and delicate, this affair abruptly breaks off. Jallez has work with the League of Nations. He is well aware of its shortcomings, but hopeful nevertheless. "It is a temporary shanty...
...friend, the philosopher Jallez, Jerphanion writes: "It has taken civilization centuries of patient fumbling to teach men that life, their own and that of others, is something sacred. Well, it's been so much work thrown away. We shan't, you'll see, get back to that attitude in a hurry...