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Early in April a young, black-haired French officer-candidate named Henri Francois Maillot deserted his comrades in the 504th Transport Battalion, and went over to the Algerian rebels with a truckload of guns and ammunition. His reason soon became apparent: Maillot was a Communist...
...Seedbed. Few men have been more eloquent on the subject of America than Jacques Barzun, and he got to his present position by his own intellectual route. The son of the literary scholar, Henri Martin Barzun, he spent his boyhood among some of the foremost artists around Paris. Novelists Jules Romains and Georges Duhamel were constant visitors, so were Artists Fernand Leger, Albert Gleizes and Marcel Duchamp. "It was," says Barzun, "a seedbed of modernism. Apollinaire dandled me on his knee. Marie Laurencin did a sketch...
...Exodus. In 1917, Henri Martin Barzun came to the U.S. on a diplomatic mission, but when the time came to go home he decided to stay. While America's lost generation looked for a spiritual home abroad, scores of French scholars and artists sought refuge in America from the wave of cynicism sweeping over Europe. After a stay in Britain, young Jacques arrived in the U.S. "in ridiculous short pants and ignorant of baseball." But he was ready to enter college at 15½. The college he chose was Columbia. "To anyone from Europe, Columbia was the American university...
...Henri, hero of The Mandarins, is a writer and newspaper editor who is under Robert's intellectual thumb. His chief problem: how to keep his struggling paper out of the hands of both capitalists and Communists. Most of his crowd is bitterly anti-U.S., strongly pro-Russian. But Henri is also a man of conscience. When he learns about the Russian forced-labor camps, he becomes uneasy, and almost breaks with Robert. While all this ideological clatter goes on, archaically reminiscent of Manhattan's literary climate in the '30s, Anne goes off to the U.S. (Simone...
Food & Drink. By this time Henri has married Anne's wayward daughter and has decided to publish an intellectual weekly with Husband Robert. For them, writing and talking are food and drink. But Anne, not so easily nourished, comes close to suicide-not only because of her broken affair, but because she has that old existentialist idea that life is empty. It is just here, in the very last paragraph of The Mandarins, that Priestess de Beauvoir chooses to suggest that existentialism is not simply a philosophy of pessimism. Just because life is essentially meaningless, she seems...