Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WORLD WITHOUT VISA [499 pp.]-Jean Malaquais, translated by Peter Grant -Doubleday...
This is the setting that Jean Malaquais has chosen for his huge and exciting novel about "shamed and sunken France." World Without Visa is a novel on the grand scale, packed with enough action to fill a dozen less ambitious books, bursting with dramatic and melodramatic climaxes, written and overwritten from a gnawing sense of social urgency - a desperate, ear-splitting wail of grief at what human life has become in the 20th Century. Niggling critics will find many faults in it, and the faults are there; but it is nonetheless a book that communicates, as no other...
World Without Visa , is one of those many-leveled books that sometimes appears to have half a dozen plots, and sometimes none at all. Dozens of sharply drawn characters move through it, their lives intertwined in frantic quests for visas, underground resistance, concentration-camp ordeals, involved political discussions and harried interludes of personal life. With a strong awareness of social gradations, Author Malaquais shows Marseille under the Vichy regime as divided into four groups: the scum, the innocents, the resisters, and the victims...
...wherever they wanted. Polish Delegate Victor Grosz then made an embarrassing point: in the past two years 250 American correspondents had been admitted to his country, on as little as two days' notice. But, he said, one Polish journalist had been waiting since Jan. 27 for a U.S. visa...
...have a visa for the first time in history...