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PHILOSOPHER OR DOG? (271 pp.)-Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Clotilde Wilson-Noonday Press...
...Belgian pavilion offered Surrealist René Magritte, whose charm lies in such odd notions as painting a night scene under a noonday sky. Less appealing was another major Belgian entry. Surrealist Paul Delvaux, whose careful rendering of a Crucifixion and a Pietá peopled entirely by skeletons seemed in needlessly bad taste...
...readers now have a chance to take a look at Rosenzweig's work firsthand. One of his earlier theological works, Understanding the Sick and the Healthy (The Noonday Press; $3), has just been published in English. Last year, in Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought (Schocken-Farrar, Straus & Young; $6), Biographer Nahum N. Glatzer, an old friend of Rosenzweig, turned out a study of his career largely drawn from Rosenzweig's own writings...
...UNKNOWN CHEKHOV: STORIES AND OTHER WRITINGS HITHERTO UNTRANSLATED (316 pp.) - Anton Chekhov - Noonday...
...dies trying to make it back to his carrier after helping to knock out the bridges at Toko-ri. But in his last minute of life, "he was no longer afraid nor was he resentful. This was the war he had been handed by his nation, and in the noonday sun he had only one thought: he was desperately in love with his wife and kids and he wanted to see them one more time . . . Harry Brubaker understood in some fragmentary way the purpose of his being in Korea...