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...Verdun, the eighth and climactic volume of Jules Romains' vast Men of Good Will (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940), was pure holocaust on the heroic scale. It was his attempt to show a nation, a continent, an age in the paroxysm of war. It was the heaviest piece of orchestration Romains' gigantic project had yet demanded...
Aftermath is the hour of silence after shock, still resonant with annihilation. In it Verdun's great orchestra is reduced, and human life withdrawn to its deepest, simplest roots. Book 17, Vorge Against Quinette (first half of Aftermath) is a cruel and sinuous piece of chamber music by a few instruments. Its theme is death. Book 18, The Sweets of Life, is even quieter, like a gentle, ruminative improvisation. Its theme is love and all that expands from it. Yet on Romains' great talents, these deep and quiet books are scarcely less demanding than Verdun...
...POOL OF VISHNU-L. H. Myers-Nelson ($3). VERDUN-Jules, Romains-Knopf...
...Verdun attackers as well as defenders died in thousands. Such mutual slaughter captured men's imaginations and the head lines. Last week's battle was far more ominous from a military standpoint...
...this made the Battle of Britain last week a greater and more ominous Verdun...