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...MONSIEUR PAUL (256 pp.) - Henri Calet-Dutton...
...Monsieur Paul, Tom puts down the story of his mistakes in a diary addressed to his son. Whether France's average Toms would recognize themselves in M. Schumacher's unprepossessing self-portrait is doubtful. The gist of his testimony seems to be that he would have avoided a lot of trouble if he had settled down to an honest job and an honest early marriage...
...fiction's report card, Monsieur Paul rates no top grades itself, but it has some virtues that more pretentious novels often lack. Author Calet writes a clean, colloquial prose in which he gets across his good-natured sympathy for his wayward hero. Working as close to his subject as a good bullfighter, he knows Tom's character and keeps it consistent. The diary and the novel end with Tom planning to run out on both his women and his son, but Author Calet explodes no moral dynamite under him. He seems to hope that son Paul will make...
Throughout Haiti this week, the people of the villages will enact the Judas hunt, an ancient Holy Week ceremonial which they have colored and absorbed into their own folklore. In effigy, "Monsieur Judas" will come to visit the peasants as one of the twelve apostles and an honored guest. But as soon as the death of Christ is announced on Good Friday, the symbolic traitor will flee, and the hunt will begin early on Holy Saturday...
...Monsieur Thomas," a customer wondered out loud one day to her Paris couturier, what was "your experience as a civilian in England during the war?" Monsieur Thomas, otherwise known as Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas, a director of the famous Atelier Molyneux in Paris, took a moment's thought before he answered...