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...brace themselves for the answer given by French Novelist Albert Camus (The Plague). It is not fashionable, like the Oedipus complex or alcoholism or a nagging mistress. Jean-Baptiste is under Adam's curse, original sin. Such a theme would be no novelty from François Mauriac or Graham Greene, but it is surprising when it comes from an existentially-minded French intellectual. As a novelist, Camus dissipates his shock effect by telling his story in a long-winded flashback. As a thinker, he remains as provocative, and to many of his French fellow intellectuals as annoying...
...probably the most covered-up singer in the business"), with her straight black hair hanging to her waist, she chanted the changes on blighted love, nostalgia and despair in a husky contralto which ranged from a whisper to a raucous shout. Such personages as François Mauriac and Françoise Sagan dashed off songs for her. Sartre wrote that "in her throat she has millions of poems not yet written." When she took to the stage (in Anastasia) in a straight dramatic role, Le Monde's Robert Kemp was entranced by her "dignity and poetry," found...
...France, the first name invoked is that of Charles de Gaulle. Not since he turned his back on what he called the "mudhole" of French politics has the name of De Gaulle been on so many lips. Wrote the Roman Catholic man of the left center, Novelist Francois Mauriac, in L'Express: "He appears to me the only Frenchman in whom reposes enough pure glory and who is gifted with enough prestige to revive in North Africa around France a federation of free peoples...
Cried Nobel Prizewinner Francois Mauriac of Sagan's talents: "The literary merit burst forth from the very first page and is indisputable." Others hailed her as a new star of letters. But not all were favorable; Paris divided between the pro-or anti-Sagan factions, and the critics honed their pens in anticipation of Author Sagan's second book. Would it prove her a writer or just another hot flash...
...Powers is probably the only U.S. Catholic writer who can describe the devil inside with the authority of a Graham Greene or a François Mauriac. He writes as well as they do, and in finding his devil in the homely incidents of everyday life, rather than in adultery, murder and suicide, he is perhaps the truer shocker...