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...years while impressionist art was becoming a common place of the U.S. home, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has passed through all stages in opinion from monster to master...
...defense mechanism of a sweet nature; instead he swaggered through the world on toddler's legs. He drank big men under tables as high as his proud chin. When he closed his eyes, he experienced the horrors of alcoholic hallucination, but with his eyes open, Count Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec saw with a savage clarity that has forced his special vision of his age on succeeding generations...
Born with a malady that left his bones tragically brittle, Henri crippled himself in a childhood fall. His sporting father, the bewhiskered and kilted Count, was so annoyed that he all but disowned him. But Henri became a living legend in Paris of the '90s. He was a fan of the cycle tracks (making a midget velodrome of his garden paths, on which he pedaled madly with his toy legs), the horse tracks, brothels, Lesbian joints and cafes. Out of frustrated love for the world of theater and action denied him by his deformity, he created...
...intelligent study of a representative theme of our time . . . truly astounding." Part of the critical hubbub rose from the fact that Author Wilson, just turned 25, shows a staggeringly erudite grasp of the works and lives of Bernard Shaw, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William Blake, George Fox, H. G. Wells, Henri Barbusse, Hermann Hesse, Van Gogh, T. E. Lawrence, Nijinsky, Sartre, Camus, Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Gurdjieff and Sri Ramakrishna, not to mention many lesser figures. But what makes The Outsider a compelling intellectual thriller is that Author Wilson uses bits and pieces of these...
...rebel detachment near Orleansville. After a quarter-hour's firing they came upon five rebel dead, one of them a European with henna-dyed hair. Something about him looked familiar. When soldiers daubed his hair with black liquid dye, there was no disguising the features of Traitor Henri Maillot, his body riddled by 14 bullets fired by the comrades he had deserted...