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...narrator in Saturnin, a beloved Czech novel by Zdenek Jirotka, groups people into one of three categories by their reactions to a plate of doughnuts: those who just stare at the doughnuts, those who wonder how it would feel to throw them at other customers, and "people for whom the idea of a doughnut whistling through the air is such an enticement that they get up and actually make it happen." Inspired by the zany book, Prague's opulent Caf? Imperial caters to the third kind. For $72, you can buy a bowl of day-old doughnuts and take...
...narrator in Saturnin, a beloved Czech novel by Zdenek Jirotka, groups people into three categories, by their reactions to a plate of doughnuts: those who just stare at the doughnuts, those who wonder how it would feel to throw them at other customers, and "people for whom the idea of a doughnut whistling through the air is such an enticement that they get up and actually make it happen." Inspired by the zany book, Prague's opulent Café Imperial caters to the third kind. For $72, you can buy a bowl of day-old doughnuts and take...
...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...
...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...