Word: saturnin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...does not give the order to suspend night flying which his subordinates expect. An epic figure of courage that is the more intense for being vicarious, he instructs the pilot who is waiting to take off with the Europe mail to wait no longer. With Saint Saturnin (see below), Night Flight is a Book-of-the-Month Club offering...
...SAINT SATURNIN-Jean Schlumberger -Dodd, Mead. When old Madame Colombe dies peacefully in her bed at Saint Saturnin. her children Louis. Jourdaine, Nicholas speculate on the significance of her departure. None of them anticipates its most ghastly consequence: their father, deprived of his wife's tactful authority, begins a quavering descent into senile decay. The first sign comes when Nicholas goes to bring old William Colombe to the death bed. The old man snores loudly, pretends to be asleep. After his wife's funeral, he persuades an aging adventuress to remain at Saint Saturnin, apparently plans ,to marry...
...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...