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...hero seemed unlikely enough-an obsessed French dentist named Morel with a passion for elephants. The creation of French Novelist Romain Gary, in his novel The Roots of Heaven, Morel had brooded in a Nazi concentration camp, conceived such a blazing reverence for life that, once freed, he took off for Darkest Africa to become a self-appointed protector of wild beasts threatened with extermination by onrushing civilization...
...European Education, by Romain Gary. A Polish boy learns bitter lessons during the Nazi occupation...
...European Education, by Romain Gary. This early Gary novel, like its successors, draws its force from a protagonist who is "condemned to heroism"-a Polish boy whose lessons, learned during the Nazi occupation, are bitter and shattering...
...EUROPEAN EDUCATION (248 pp.)-Romain Gary-Simon & Schuster...
French Novelist Romain Gary has created a gallery of heroes who are willing to die for liberty but have to settle for the lesser victory of self-knowledge. Whether they enter the lists on the side of justice and liberty (The Colors of the Day) or fanatically defend so unlikely a symbol of freedom as the disappearing elephant (The Roots of Heaven), they wind up knowing that man's nature itself precludes the achievement of worldly grace. A courageous fighter himself (in the French and Free French air forces for eight years). Gary saves his writing from downright pessimism...