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...LIVING BUDDHA-Paul Morand-Henry Holt ($2.50). Spengler and Keyserling have turned toward the Orient for destruction and salvation of the Occident. Far less seriously, Paul Morand, scintillating French diplomat-novelist, shows the East has much to offer the West, and the West something to the East, but that incompatibility of mind and heart will prevent any contact close enough for destruction or salvation...
...Author. France, patron of the arts, frequently offers her young authors the travel and leisure of the diplomatic service (Paul Claudel, Jean Giraudoux). Author Morand has been attached to the embassies of London, Rome, Madrid, and finally Bangkok. To and from this last post he traveled by way of America, Japan, India, collecting data for his latest book. Born in Russia, of French parents (1888), he was educated at Oxford, studied law and political science in Paris, is a prolific writer, notably of post-War character sketches. Sleek of face and hair, he looks still younger than...
...work, Author Morand allows readers to see him, a suave and casual Prospero, waving a wand which resembles a swagger stick. He wishes readers to understand how little effort it has caused him to be referred to as the polished Parisian diplomat, as the brilliant, the famed, the witty author of Ouvert la Nuit, Fermé la Nuit and many a shorter turn in the smartest smart-charts...
...paper dollars. What a richness, what a flowering of genius is our epoch, and how poor is America in this respect when compared with us. She counts hardly ten talented writers, Dreiser, Stinclair Lewis, Sherwood. Anderson, Cabell, and several others, Consider out own authors: Maurras, Marsau, Morand, Maurois, Mauriase, Miomandre, Montherland, Magre, Mille, Martin du Gard... There are ten already, and I have only listed those whose names begin with M. We can be proud of being French...
...like his countryman, French Ambassador Paul Claudel (TiME, March 21). combines diplomacy and literature. Having been educated at L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris, having served as attache at the embassies in London, Rome, Madrid and the Orient, M. Morand quickly turned his energies to fiction and a study of the Negro. He is best known in the U. S. for his book, Open all Night. Thirty-nine, married, high-foreheaded, dark, hv tops the new generation of French and sensuous realists. "M. Claudel," said he, "is the greatest of Catholic poets...