Word: stendhals
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...Maurois finds business to be fundamentally sound in the nine arts of: loving, marriage, family life, friendship, thinking, working, leadership, growing old, happiness. Like most busy but unoriginal literary minds he has an aptitude for quoting his superiors; Shaw, Valery and Stendhal say the best things in his book. Maurois's ability to make sentences bow from the waist, his flair for "gallic" phrasing of sincere platitudes transform the "golden mean" into gilt-edged mediocrity...
...democratic countries, he adds the unkindest cut of all, says they probably control the fascist countries too. They organize wars, revolutions, panics, famines, inflation and deflation. Growing more lyrical, Céline damns as Jewish, Cézanne, Charles Chaplin, Lenin, Madame Curie, Racine, Montaigne, William Faulkner, Stendhal, Zola, the Vatican, the French general staff, the Catholic clergy, critics, propagandists, politicians, movie producers and the people who rejected his ballet...
Except for minor disguises, says Austrian Author Frischauer, A Great Lord tells the true story of a Polish aristocrat in Napoleonic times. In theme, it is almost a first-class historical novel in the tradition of Tolstoy or Stendhal. With twice his imagination and half his unconscious Polish bias, Author Frischauer might have lived up to this tradition, instead of merely recalling it to his book's detriment. But by comparison with most recent historical romances, A Great Lord is a solidly written, serious work...
...library philosopher. Author Blum quotes sparingly from such pioneers of sex thought as Balzac, Rousseau, Stendhal, prefers his own sex data gathered "for years." Liveliest example of data-gathering by M. Blum, who "used to be very fond of following women," is his description of how in two hours before her train, a charming pickup gave him an insight into the "amorous unrest" of young brides. Later he learned she was the wife of an old college friend...
Wheel of Fortune is a surprising book. It sets out like a society farce, develops into the psychological realism of a Stendhal novel, ends like a Dostoievskian drama. And the whole thing leaves an impression as unmistakably Italian as a plaster wall painted to look like marble. A tour de force of remarkable virtuosity, this story of a woman's disintegration will linger in readers' minds as a clever analysis but not a revelation...