Word: roux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRANK G. Roux Newark...
...Infighting. A dark-haired daughter of a Marseille family, Mile. Charles-Roux, 44, was raised in Italy, where her father was French Ambassador to the Vatican. Like the long-forgotten works of other postwar mandarins, her novel berates the crass profit motive in the U.S., speaks of "the grip of money on each face." One episode tells of "Babs," a leggy New York career girl and Fair staffer who marries an Italian-American political boss and goes with him to Sicily, where women have a considerably different role from the one she is accustomed to. The narrator is Gianna, another...
Thanks to the Prix Goncourt, Mile, Charles-Roux will certainly reap her own commercial benefits from the book. The Prix Goncourt novel each year makes just about everyone's Christmas shopping list, bringing sudden rewards to the hitherto unrecognized authors that it honors. Though Marcel Proust and Andre Malraux were among past winners, the jury-whose average age is 74-always picks a book that has enough pizazz for the mass reader. With its explicit sexual passages, Oublier Palerme could sell as many as 400,000 copies in France this year, will doubtless be quickly translated into English...
...Proud. As Novelist François Nourissier sees it, one reason that Oublier Palerme won was that Mile. Charles-Roux "comes from a well-known family and had no enemies on the jury." His remark suggests the intrigue that occurs in the demimonde of belles-lettres over the some 1,850 French literary prizes that are awarded each year. Nourissier, himself a former Vogue editor who resigned because Mile. "Charles-Roux was fired, captured this year's less lucrative but prestigious Académic Franchise prize for his Line Histoire Française a nostalgic reverie in which...
...Mile. Charles-Roux, despite her apparent objections to the style and values of the New World, she finds New York "a hundred times more stimulating than Paris." Says she: "As soon as I have the money-and I hope it will be the small fortune that I deserve-I will go right back to New York...