Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DAIRY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Sex and sadism among the bourgeoisie of provincial France, with Jeanne Moreau as the Parisian maid who studies evil through a cool, clear glass...
...SELVES OF QUINTE by Marcel Moreau. 248 pages. Braziller...
...trouble with this hallucinatory first novel is that Author Moreau i trying to be like Sartre, only smartre. His intense existentialism is closer to dementia, and the result is a raging stream of semiconsciousness in which real and imagined horrors swim by, indistinguishable and unreal. "You go through streets but you do not see the streets, you go through people but you do not see the people," muses Quinte, who doesn...
...Moreau has a Belgian's gift for morose images ("the silence massed there like a dump of faded echoes") and the surreal ("He swam across stones, he crossed chromogeneous skies, fields paved with spines, the breath of cowards"). When his book was published in France last year, Paris' two top literary monthlies hailed him as "one of the great writers of our time." But Selves is too agonized and too labored. Intended as a critique of the inner man, it comes out as a shriek...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Sex and sadism among the bourgeoisie of provincial France, with Jeanne Moreau as the Parisian maid who studies evil through a cool, clear glass...