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...writer who hides his identity under the pseudonym André Simone may be Pertinax (André Geraud), André Gide, André Malraux, Georges Mandel, Geneviève Tabouis. All deny that they wrote J'Accuse! The book is a lurid charge that most of France's political and military leaders were traitors-those who were not were dupes. A good deal of the charge is based on whispers from Senators, confidences from Cabinet Ministers, tips from newspapermen...
Many a 20th-century writer has shown the influence of the movies. Two who have thus added to the vitality of contemporary writing are Malraux and Dashiell Hammett; Paul Vialar is a third. Jerome himself so inescapably suggests Cinemactor Jean Cabin that the latter must have inspired him. Rose of the Sea is rather a printed movie than a novel, and with a few passages cut would be expert and beautiful...
Romains' countryman, Andre Malraux, achieved in Man's Fate (1934), a story of the 1927 Chinese civil war, a more vivid and at times more exalted work of dramatic craftsmanship than Verdun. But Malraux was working within far narrower limits, in what physicists by analogy might call a closed field-more exotic, more melodramatic, less austere than Romains'. John Dos Passes' ambitious trilogy of pre-War to post-War U. S. A. appears nearer to Romains' in scope, but his great powers of narrative and evocation are spent on a host of minor characters...
...first number Twice A Year published 34 pages of moderately pithy pontification by Alfred Stieglitz; a gustier and guttier five-page blast on aesthetics by e. e. cummings; some subtle war-time letters (1914-19) of the great German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke; excerpts from Andre Malraux and Franz Kafka among others; the studied, furious oration in which individualist Henry David Thoreau in 1859 defended individualist John Brown. Its "Civil Liberties Section" contained Roger Baldwin's On Being a Conscientious Objector (1918-1913)-plus the judge's decision that in 1918 sent Baldwin to jail...
...finest book that came out of the Spanish War was Andre Malraux's Man's Hope (TIME, Nov. 7). Alvah Bessie's book is not only the second finest; it is an addendum. Malraux's fictional account of the war ended with the Loyalist victory at Brihuega in March 1937. Bessie's personal story of eight months in the Lincoln Battalion begins in February 1938, six weeks before the battalion was cut to pieces in the Fascist drive to the sea. The author, a gifted short story writer and ex-Guggenheim fellow, took part...