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An Unrepentant Naturalist
Hazlitt, Henry | March 26, 1930 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Montaigne," by André Gide. The style and structure of this volume is irritating. The reaction in France against the grace and fluency of Anatole France and his school has gone in some instances to absurd lengths, and leading French writers seem now to be seeking a reputation for depth and subtlety by the process of endlessly qualifying their sentences, ripping them open and stuffing them full of involved parentheses. M. Gide is not satisfied with wedging these qualifications and parentheses into nearly all his sentences; he sprinkles them with asterisks that refer us to notes in the back, and the notes are frequently further modifications.

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AUTHORS; GIDE, Andre, 1869-1951; PARENTHESIS (Rhetoric); FRANCE, Anatole; RHETORIC; AUTHORSHIP
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