Word: lecteur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prose, Moralist Smith found the form. It was these lapidary fragments which he called trivia, and in which he condensed the discernments, bafflements, exultations, wry exposures to society and to eternity, and shy self-revelations of the Smithian soul, which in Baudelaire's words is "vous, hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère"-"you, hypocritic reader, my likeness, my brother." All Trivia is Smith's amused comments on life, heightened by his sense of the precariousness of living...
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