![]() ![]() ![]() He was one of the editors of a clandestine paper, Combat, which survived the LiberationĪs one of the most vigorous and untrammeled of the Paris dailies. During the war he was active in the Resistance movement. In Paris, where he has suffered the fate of so many good writers by becoming a publisher. He was born in French North Africa in 1913 and now lives Brown's article in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review, is an outstanding leader of the writers who have emerged in France since the war. That's one hopeful sign of French recovery, though the point of view, like the reality, may be ruggedlyĬamus, as we learned from John L. To be boiling again with all sorts of new-and some not so new-literary movements, reading from right to left and back again. (Give it time, give it time.) In Britain, as in other parts of the Continent, nothing much has happened to disturb the seismographs of literature. Not yet formed its ranks to express itself and harass its touchy elders. In America, the months since the end of the war have been marked by a gaudy parade of historical novels born in the splendid isolation of the research files and bound happily for the coasts of technicolor. ![]() ![]() He Stranger,” a novel of crime and punishment by Albert Camus, published today, should touch off in this country a renewed burst of discussionĪbout the young French writers who are at the moment making more unusual literary news than the writers of any other country. ![]()
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