Word: proust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MARKAND - Waldo Frank - Scribner ($2.75). The latest of Prophet Frank's novels of "mystical realism," this is less interesting as a novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum opus. 3 MEN DIE-Sarah Gertrude Millin- Harper ($2.50). Sombre story of a South African murderess, by the author of God's Stepchildren. Non-Fiction...
...attempt, stylistically, to re-echo the taut and simple brutalities of Hemingway; nor is there nay imitation of Dos Passos' inchoate complexity. Mr. Hoffman is not be obvious disciple of anybody who is being toasted by the aesthetes, 1933 model. His innovation in method places him in Proust's debt, if in anybody's, since the book is an attempt to remember things past, and to recapture their essence. The author muses on life in a German Lutheran minister's household, situated in a German settlement in New York State. The life that is led there is not melodramatic...
...waiting to the Empress Akiko, it has been a widely-known classic in Japan since 1022. When British Scholar Arthur David Waley brought out the first volume of his translation (1925), critics tumbled over themselves to get within wreath-throwing distance. The Tale of Genji was compared to Proust, Jane Austen. Boccaccio. Shakespeare. Its translator calls it "by far the greatest novel of the East and one which, even if compared with the fiction of Europe, takes its place as one of the dozen masterpieces of the world." With The Bridge of Dreams, the sixth volume, The Tale of Genji...
PERHAPS no one is better fitted to recount the fantastic, brilliant history of the post-war decade in Paris than Maurice Sachs. As the grandson of Bizet, composer of "Carmen," the grandson of Georges Sachs, the great friend of Anatole France and Briand, and of the Madame Straus Proust immortalized as Madame Verdurin, he was brought up among literary people whose reputations were already established. And later, as the protege of Cocteau, Maritain, and Max Jacob, he knew all that world of genius and bohemianism, so strange in its contradictions and all comprehending unity...
...Unlike Proust's, Authoress Luhan's diving memory fails to bring up pearls; but it is not for lack of trying, and she is sure they are there. Her natural sympathy with people, she says, "has caused me many inward conflicts, and it has always drawn people to me in the same degree that I flowed out to them and identified myself with them, and it has always made people want to kiss me, to manifest an actual nearness and union, finding it comforting and consolatory. It is the only genius I have ever...