Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugh MacLennan, a top Canadian novelist (Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes), is an alert, perceptive native of Cape Breton, N.S. who has been around quite a lot. After sampling life in England (as a Rhodes scholar), and in the U.S. (as a graduate student at Princeton for three years), he decided that Canada was the place to live after all. In MacLean's Magazine this week 39-year-old Novelist MacLennan gives some reasons why the U.S. is not his choice...
...year class as a freelancer, and as art director of an advertising agency, snub-nosed Paul Rand still looks very much like the kid who spent his evenings studying commercial art at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. He has never stopped studying, and he insists that Critic Roger Fry, Novelist André Malraux and Philosopher John Dewey have taught him a lot about the uses of art, "although I don't understand them half the time...
...this pamphlet, Novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, the leader of the French Existentialist movement, vigorously, often brilliantly, drags a shady topic into the light. He occasionally pushes a sound idea to a silly extreme, e.g.: readers are likely to feel that Author Sartre hits the nail square on the head when he says that the anti-Semite is normally a petty bourgeois who takes "passionate pride" in being "an average man . . . a mediocre person." But they will balk when Sartre goes on to say that "there is no example of an anti-Semite claiming individual superiority over the Jews," or that...
Most readable are the too-few pages Spender gives to translations of Nazi and proto-Nazi writings-including Novelist Ernst Jiinger's ecstatic conception of the modern battlefield...
...rich field of literary biography, Americans had a thin year. In Leo Tolstoy, Columbia Professor Ernest J. Simmons made use of much new material, and his book seemed likely to become a standard text. Matthew Josephson's Stendhal was the most thorough work in English on the French novelist, but its qualities arose more out of industriousness than skill...