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...wise dispensation of Providence has cut her off by that streak of silver sea . . . partially from dangers, absolutely from the temptations which attend upon the local neighborhood of the continental nations." As for the French, it would still have been a long way to Tipperary, anyway. Unless, of course, Monsieur Billecocq was looking ahead to the even greater improbability of an Anglo-Irish chunnel...
...MONSIEUR by LAWRENCE DURRELL 305 pages. Viking...
...Monsieur is no exception. The au thor of the lush and intricate Alexandria Quartet here invents a novelist named Blanford, who invents a novelist named Sutcliffe, who caricatures Blanford mercilessly as "Bloshford," a bestselling hack. The book is one of those box-within-box amusements: Sutcliffe, as a character in a novel by Blanford, cracks up in the process of writing a novel in which he misinterprets the situations of some of his friends, other Blanford characters. These convolutions lead to the expectable mild ironies of viewpoint, but the plot is too sketchily developed to constitute the novel...
...persons. On the other hand, I think anybody can see that good cooperation between the French and German governments is a necessary precondition for the progress of European integration. But even if people are friends, this does not mean that they can compromise the national interest of their people. Monsieur Giscard d'Estaing is a very sober man, not given to great speechmaking, more given to practical and concrete results. And in some ways I may match this attitude...
Working in such diverse forms as social drama, fantasy and elegy, Renoir has made nearly three dozen films since his first in 1924. Such works as The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936), The Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are classics whose richness and subtlety of style are undimmed either by familiarity or academic acceptability. His Little Theatre, created for French television in 1969, was his first film in more than ten years. Renoir, who will be 80 this September, has not made another since, but The Little Theatre is a fittingly graceful valedictory...