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Hunted Past. How he fared he told in the final issue of the Bell. "Having been in the U.S. before, I took it the visa would be readily forthcoming . . . I am preeminently the aging, kindly gentleman that should pass in & out of any county unnoticed." Actually, he was not that Milquetoasty: he had fought for the republic in 1918, been caught and condemned to death, escaped by setting fire to the jail. One of his novels (The Way It Was With Them) was chosen a book of-the-month (1928) by the Catholic Book Club of America...
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...
Sometimes World Without Visa trembles on the edge of ten-twent'-thirt' melodrama, sometimes it seems incongruously romantic in its motivations. But all such objections are ultimately swept aside by the power with which Malaquais has raised a verbal monument to the martyrdom of Europe...