Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four in One. Two brothers, Armand and Lucien Roux, both opticians, have spent 17 years at the process, working in their fifth-floor laboratory in a drab building on the Left Bank. Fortnight ago they invited famed Writer-Producer Marcel Pagnol to see some test shots. Greatly excited by what he saw, Pagnol (The Baker's Wife, The Welldigger's Daughter) asked to take some color shots of his own. They turned out so well that he decided to shelve the black-&-white film on Franz Schubert (La Belle Meuniere) which he had just finished, and shoot...
...inconsistencies (he has professed to be both an atheist and a Christian), his admitted homosexuality and a superbly polished literary style that makes most other contemporary prose seem sloppy. Gide has suffered more harsh cuffs from critics and more indifference from the reading public than any other major writer of his time. Now, at 78, he is France's literary lion, a member of the Royal Academy since 1924, a Nobel Prizewinner (1947). In many quarters he is regarded as the world's greatest living man of letters...
...just published (the third volume will be out next year), is probably as candid a confession of a writer's moral and ethical anguish as ever got into print. Not even in Gide's own sensationally indiscreet autobiography, It Die (a limited edition appeared in the U.S. in 1935), is the reader treated to a grimmer spiritual wrestling match than in this account of Gide v. his personal devil, Gide v. an inhospitable world, Gide v. his Puritan conscience...
...Some Sort of Craziness . . ." While many another writer (Poe, Dostoevsky, Melville) fought battles against poverty, Andre Gide did his struggling without ever missing a meal or muddying his boots. The only child of wealthy French...
...ever a writer had reason to give up, it was young Gide. All of his early books were critical and popular failures (one sold ten copies in ten years). Gide wrote in his Journals: "I do not know where I am going; but I am making progress." His progress was imperceptible to other eyes. Critics lambasted everything he wrote; to French Roman Catholics, his Corydon, a frank defense of homosexuality, was the devil's own mischief...