Word: mazie
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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French critics have been exclaiming and declaiming about Author La Mazière. His hero, the Parisian equivalent of a Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants...