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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ghosts present were the members of Mabel Dodge Luhan's famed pre-war salon at 23 Fifth Avenue, vividly recalled in Vol. Ill of Mabel's autobiographical succes de scandale, Intimate Memories ("it makes me sick in my solar plexus," said D. H. Lawrence). Dead & gone are many a writer, artist, anarchist, psychiatrist, birth-controller who enlivened that salon -Big Bill Haywood, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Arthur Brisbane, Lincoln Steffens, Amy Lowell, Edwin Arlington Robinson. On the site where Mabel once "proceeded to startle, delight and dumfound the town," where she "caught men between the eyes, held them...
...ordinary installment is Verdun (Vol. 8 in the U. S. edition, Vols. XV and XVI in the French). With it, Remains comes to World War I. This is the event for which his unhurried previous volumes, his 400-odd characters, his encyclopedic portrayal of French pre-War society, have formed the deliberate prelude. The most popular volume so far in France it will almost certainly be just as widely read in the U. S. (where it is Book-of-the-Month choice for January). One reason: the subject. Another: as narrative it is simpler, faster, more sharply focused than...
...every point of which they faced the opposing lines with a ceaseless crackling of fire, a lethal trembling, as though something tormented, burning, and unapproachable had become installed as a natural feature of the landscape." The camera narrows to young Jerphanion, who first appeared in the first vol ume as a sensitive, acute, idealistic student arriving in Paris to attend the Normal School. Jerphanion, as a second lieu tenant, returns from leave in Paris. He renews his acquaintance with the trans forming fact of trench fear. He and his sardonic pal Fabre get relief in a joke, adapted from...