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...latest edition of the Index (1948) lists 4,126 titles-all of them books banned since 1600. Many of the names it includes must have popped up on Father Burke's old University of Illinois reading lists. Among them: Voltaire, Kant, Montesquieu, Descartes, Spinoza, Anatole France, Emile Zola, John Stuart Mill, Francis Bacon, Hugo Grotius, Gustave Flaubert, Maurice Maeterlinck...
...letter to the London Sunday Times, Author Charles (The Fountain) Morgan deplored the flood of postwar novels that are "grossly brutal in subject and in language." Such writing, said he, is not only puerile, but out of date. "Those who today are trying to out-Zola Zola or to undertake the scatological education of Lady Chatterley are, in effect, scrawling on their grandparents' lavatory walls...
Snobs & Farm Girls. Stephen Crane struck the first modern note with tight-lipped stories that anticipated Hemingway and all the little Hemingways. Out West, Frank Norris and Jack London spoke up bluntly. Norris, remarks Critic Brooks, "had Zola's nose for the odor cf stale bedding and of creosote"; London wrote rowdy stories in which "one heard the perpetual crunch-crunch of bones...
...skillful academic portraits and genre paintings (which looked rather like illustrations for Emile Zola) won Munch a government grant to study in Paris for three years. There he learned to paint sunlight almost as eloquently as the impressionist Pissarro, and to handle line and color with something like Gauguin's fluid grace. When he decided to forget the fashionable philosophy of art for art's sake and paint "living beings" instead, Munch was as well equipped for the job as any artist in Europe...
...ribbon rather than a cap-and-sweater socialist. He adored reason and persuasion above emotion and force. He also loved the elegance of the society he deplored. He liked to recite by rote for hours at a stretch from Pascal, La Bruyere, Saint-Evremond. He knew Anatole France, Zola and Proust. He wrote Latin verse, brilliant dramatic reviews for avant-garde magazines, a study of Stendhal, an imaginary talk with Goethe, a book on marriage (dedicated to his wife) that shocked the bourgeoisie because it favored as much premarital experimental love for women...