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French Literature Today
Lewisohn, Ludwig | November 23, 1927 issue

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The French literary scene of the moment is hard to describe. There is activity; there is nothing salient. One has a sense of people rushing hither and thither with to do. It is the vestiges of the great and lasting France that make contemporary writing seem so feeble and futile. It is full of a hard and tired exoticism as in the popular novels of Blaise Cendrars and Paul Morand, whose "Bouddha Vivant" is one of the successes of the year; there is hard and violent preciosity, as in the novels of Jean Geraudour, or a weary and constricted naturalism, as in those of Francois Mauriac.

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LITERATURE; FICTION; NATURALISM; MATERIALISM; MAURIAC, Francois, 1885-1970; FRANCE
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