Word: vercel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MADMAN'S MEMORY (213 pp.)-Roger Vercel-Translated by Warre Bradley Wells-Random House...
...readers know French Novelist Roger Vercel for his Tides of Mont St.-Michel, a fictional Cook's Tour of the famed medieval island abbey off Brittany. Less ambitious but just as colorful is the latest Vercel novel published in the U.S.-the story of a rich, gone-to-seed Breton family who live at Plangomeur, a mansion not far from Mont St.-Michel...
...Novelist Vercel sometimes fails to make his characters credible, generally succeeds in capturing the dark, moody, half-Celtic atmosphere of the Brittany he knows so well...
...story, based on Roger Vercel's Goncourt Prize novel, Remorques (published in the U.S. as Salvage-TIME, Jan. n, 1937), is lacking in what the U.S. trade likes to call "big story values." Nothing much happens. Tugboat Captain Gabin, married for ten years to a nice, affectionate little blonde, suddenly finds that he's mad about Mile. Morgan. Except for a few convincing details, that's practically the whole plot...