Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hero of the disgruntled suitor; few authors would dare try. Jean Fayard, son and employe of a Paris publisher, flirted with the idea but did not let his flirtation go too far. As a result, his "true love story" won the coveted Prix Goncourt (1931) over such competitors as Saint Saturnin and Night Flight (TIME...
Meantime he had wormed his way into aristocratic salons of the Faubourg Saint- Germain, gradually built up a reputation as a man of fashion, a wit, a beautiful talker. So great was his renown and his care for it that when he entertained at dinner he would eat beforehand so that his tongue could wag undisturbed. His entrances were timed strategically: just as a gathering was preparing to break up Proust would enter, set the room abuzz with his rapid-fire monolog: "Do you know whether the Due de? stayed on in the boudoir with Mme Z? Could you explain...
...reprisal the de Valera government secretly recalled hundreds, of their more violent followers exiled to Canada and the U. S. by the Cosgrave government. At Saint John, New Brunswick reporters found one Vincent Boyle who admitted that he had received $100 and passage back to Ireland from the present Minister for Defense, Frank Aiken, that he was on his way to New York to join 700 more returning to Ireland...
...original study of death from old age. Saint Saturnin is a compressed, sombre novel, graced by an appropriate austerity of style. Rated by Author Andre Maurois as the most remarkable French novel in ten years and winner of the Northcliffe Prize, Saint Saturnin, with Night Flight (see col. 1) is the Book-of-the-Month Club's "duplicate" choice for August...
...study of religious history, gave it up before the War to write a play, poetry and novel. (His grandmother wrote children's books, his mother was a novelist.) With André Gide, he helped found La Nonvelle Revue Française, which published both Night Flight and Saint Saturnin. With Jacques Copeau. he founded the theatre of the Vieux-Colombier which produced two of his own plays...