Word: goncourt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...goose destined for pâté de foie gras. Both are force-fed; both die sluggishly for the sake of a few rich morsels. Michel Tournier's The Ogre is engorged with ideas, which is one reason why it waddled off with France's 1970 Prix Goncourt. With unanimous praise from the critics ("The most important book to come out in France since Proust," said Janet Planner), the novel became a bestseller. It is not too difficult to see why. Its setting is World War II and with existentialism temporarily mined out. M. Tournier proves a clever...
...FRUITS OF WINTER by Bernard Clavel. 382 pages. Coward-McCann. $6.95. Mere and Pere Dubois cope less with World War II than with the grim guerrilla assaults of old age in this incessantly poignant, Goncourt prizewinning novel of French village life...
Restaurant Drouant, Place Gaillon. Monthly meeting place of the French literary club, the Académie Goncourt. Excellent seafood (coquille St. Jacques gratinée, lobster thermidor) and desserts (peach Melba, orange Jeanette). About...
...rage, fire-bombing of Dresden-which he lived through as a war prisoner. In Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud writes of an impoverished painter who outwits a gang of forgers who force him to turn out a new Titian. From Paris comes The Fruits of Winter, the new Prix Goncourt winner that was the occasion for enough scheming and plotting on the part of the prize jury (TIME, Nov. 29) to provide material for a brilliant satire. The winning author is Bernard Clavel, and his story, modeled on his parents' life, is about the bitter years of the Nazi...
Author Bataille, a screenwriter and novelist who was a finalist in last year's Prix Goncourt-France's foremost literary award-has perhaps revived Gilles de Rais's life a bit too fully. For mass horrors explicitly described, this book certainly has few rivals. Nowhere else, for example, can the reader find a set of instructions for playing ball with a human head...