Word: paulhan
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Died. Jean Paulhan, 83, author, editor and academician; of cancer; in Paris. As longtime editor (1925-40, 1953-68) of the prestigious monthly La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paulhan helped guide the careers of such luminaries as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. He be rated the mediocre, praised the promising, and generally acted like a mandarin of French letters. He was elected to the sedate Academic Française in 1963, even though it was rumored that he had written L'Histoire d'O, a novel about the joys of masochism...
...Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand mandarin of French letters, Paulhan is director of the influential Nouvelle Revue Française. "Even to set the covers of L'Histoire d'O ajar is to open the gates...
...ACADEMIE FRANÇAISE. "As I see it now, I wouldn't want to belong. I think the last crop they let in is just not up to standard. There are others on the outside worth more than many on the inside-André Breton, Paulhan, Lévi-Strauss, Sartre if he weren't such an idiot, such a strange, bizarre monster...