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Carnejoux is the alter ego of Novelist Claude Mauriac, son of Francois Mauriac...
...MARQUISE WENT OUT AT FIVE (311 pp.)-Claude Mauriac-Braziller...
...Young Mauriac is perhaps the most appealing and most readily understandable (if not the most profound) of the French group variously called the Anti-Novelists, the New Realists or merely the New Novelists. These tags are not very illuminating, and none could be satisfactory, because the writings of Mauriac, Michel Butor, Claude Simon, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute do not much resemble one another; the authors are a movement only in that each rejects the conventional psychological novel...
...Mauriac's technique uses only thoughts and dialogue; there is no narrative and no plot. But he is easy on his readers; his interior monologues are phrased mostly in complete sentences, and although he shifts characters from paragraph to paragraph, there is usually some indication of who is doing the thinking...
There is probably a limit to how much can be said with Mauriac's method, but fortunately the author, unlike most avantgardists, feels no compulsion to be deep. His slight, amusing novel, The Dinner Party, merely proved slyly that the host (Carnejoux again) and most of his guests were intricately and sexually involved with one another. The present book proves even less, and is equally charming. Its effect is that of sitting in the sun at an outdoor cafe, slightly muzzy from wine, and imagining idly what is going on in the heads of the passersby...