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Some 300 years ago one Daniel Jean-richard, blacksmith of the town of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland, turned from his horseshoeing to inspect an object in the hand of a friend. "Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça?" he inquired...
...NIGHT IN KURDISTAN?Jean-Richard Bloch?Simon & Schuster...
...Author. Jean-Richard Bloch is known to U. S. readers as author of a realistic super-novel of industrialism ("?& Co.", TIME, Jan. 27, 1930). In this venture into a savage Orient he shows a power of historical imagination you may admire but will hardly find surprising. A Night in Kurdistan is the kind of melodrama an artist sometimes makes...
...Author. Jean-Richard Bloch, 46, born in Paris of Alsatian Jewish parentage, onetime schoolteacher, onetime soldier, is one of France's leading novelists, a playwright, director of a publishing house, assistant editor of Europe. At seven he wrote imitations of Moliére; at 26 his first play was produced at the Odeon. "- & Co." was ready for the press when the War broke out, was put on sale in August 1917, the day the German army entered Montdidier (50 miles from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs...
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