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...latest novel by 47-year-old Simone de Beauvoir, Les Mandarins, is now the sensation of Paris (an earlier De Beauvoir novel has just appeared in the U.S.-TIME, Feb. 7). In December Les Mandarins (roughly, The Intellectuals) won France's fattest literary prize, the Goncourt. Novelist Albert Camus and Author de Beauvoir's great and good friend, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, are thinly disguised principals. "These new Platos," one critic wrote, "talk slang like street cleaners, express themselves as sewer diggers no longer express themselves...
...like anyone to make fun of me." "I'll do the talking, Dominici," the chief judge shouted back at him. "You just listen!" Diverting as it was, the trial did little to shed light on Dominici's guilt or innocence. Long before it was done, Goncourt Academy Playwright Armand Salacrou voiced one verdict. "I know," he said, "who is the really guilty party. It is French justice...
Died. Maurice Bedel, 69, French satiric novelist (Jerome: Sixty Degrees North Latitude, The New Arcadia], winner (in 1927) of the Goncourt Prize, chronicler in his prewar novels of the evils of Fascism and Naziism; of uremia; in Chatellerault, France...
...forced her to turn out, in turn did much to teach her a style as ruthlessly chaste as her heroines were unchaste. Colette depicted quietly desperate women in love and in bed, became the most honored female writer in France's history, first woman president of the Academic Goncourt (the Academic Francaise admits only men), ironically achieved widespread fame in the U.S. only recently as the discoverer of Actress Audrey Hepburn...
...There are some sharply evocative sketches of French aristocrats in the old-fashioned countryside, and of French Protestants in a prim, latter-day Huguenot Parisian flat. And there is the strange children's world in which cruelty is mixed with utter innocence. The novel won the 1950 Prix Goncourt and sold 100,000 copies in France. But then, French tastes have always been rather special...