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...vanities of North Shore existence are exposed by the horrified savage-action painting and splintered Christianity, electro-dodecaphonic music and beat poetry, capri pants and cocktail parties. The peasant-savage finally flees to the jungle, having become a no-nonsense savage in the crucible of crumbling society. The girl follows on the wings of love: "Now my unquiet heart is at ease," she sings. "Nothing remains but ourselves and the trees." They seal their defection with a kiss-as native bearers carry the appliances of the fat life into their cave...
...LOST SHORE by Anna Langfus. 254 pages. Pantheon...
Novelists are often the worst judges of their own intentions, and Polish-born Anna Langfus is no exception. In The Lost Shore, she explains, she was aiming at a bestseller in the manner of Françoise Sagan. What she achieved was a novel simple and laconic in manner but as anguished as a muffled scream. It won the Prix Goncourt...
...plot, The Lost Shore is classically Saganesque: a young woman meets an elderly man in Paris, listlessly encourages his shy advances, and goes off to live with him on the Riviera...
...always easy for a reader to feel sorry for a character who is so persistently sorry for herself. But Author Langfus' heroine in The Lost Shore has survived the concentration camp only to become a piece of human driftwood, driven by memories of a horror that, for a whole shattered generation, stubbornly refuse...