Word: tatania
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...hero, Bob St. Clair, all lie in the forlorn mind of a poor, put-upon writer who just scrapes by by churning out pot-boilers. The unhappy writer turns his chintzy publisher into an Albanian villain, and seduces the ice-cold grad student upstairs as the luscious female spy Tatania--all in books. The poor guy, awwwwwwww. But of course de Broca lets the foible-ridden writer get the shy student in the end. And while the whole spy-spook idea may be too worn to make this into another sleeper a la King of Hearts, this one is good...
...page does not end until he heaves Chazard over the balcony, spends two years in prison for the impassioned murder, and on the morning he is released runs into a girl he used to know. The girl, Tatania Bouvillon, invites him to live with her; he declines, breaks his engagement, but moves in with his brother and former financee, Valeric. Shortly afterwards he goes to work for an immense corporation called S.B.H., where he learns that his patron, the S.B.H. Chairman Lormier, is a grotesquely arrogant swindler trying perpetually to outwit the Managing Director Hermelin. Loyalty and coincidence commit...
...wholly inexplicable devotion and admiration of almost every young person in Paris. His disciples have never seen "Porteur", as they call him, or read his vignettes, but they perpetually invoke his name with unfathomable reverence. The plot, which is obviously enormously complicated, forms about Martin's movements between Tatania's aristocratic pretensions and Valerie's fondness for the values of former Premier Pinay; his role in the Lormier-Hermelin dispute; his attempts to find the scrawling autobiographer and the sources of his brother...
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