Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recapture such violent moments of the Spanish Civil War, and to suggest their meaning, is the task of André Malraux in Man's Hope. His fifth novel, it establishes more plainly than ever that Malraux is the world's foremost novelist of revolution and one of the most exciting and provocative of living writers. Unlike most modern novels, Man's Hope was written on the scene of action, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, describes real characters and events that actually occurred. And unlike most modern novelists, André Malraux is also...
...seen. This applies to "Service De Luxe," which opened yesterday at the Memorial. A tendency to drag in spots and a too-melodramatic ending are the chief faults of this film, which will neither edify nor inspire, but which should certainly amuse. In addition to Miss Bennett and a novel plot, the picture offers Charles Ruggles and Helen Broderick in roles that do them justice, and Mischa Auer in one of the best pieces of acting he has ever done. As a Russian cook and erstwhile archduke, Mr. Auer chats continuously with his patron saint, located somewhere over his right...
...books like Guilloux's Bitter Victory, Romains' The Proud and the Meek, the small cities of the Republic seethe with vice, scandal, adultery, perversion that are all the more conspicuous because of the peaceful calm of the surrounding countryside. In Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon, continuing the panoramic novel he began last year in The Bells of Basel, gives the most lurid picture of provincial passion thus...
Although the second half of the novel pictures big-time corruption in Paris, complete with blackmailers, international financiers and gamblers, it is less convincing than the early chapters laid in a little town near Marseille. There the mayor's 16-year-old son is having an affair with the wife of the tax collector, as is the local doctor; the dealer in funeral wreaths is embracing his wife's maid, who is also having an affair with the son of a schoolteacher, who, in turn, is mixed up with the nymphomaniac daughter of the owner of the local...
...rounded story of detection, in which Albert Campion expertly solves three deaths in a professional and artistic London circle. Not only is it a skilful mystery, with a solution that stays in solution until the end, but it has good characterizations, and is a competent job of novel-writing...