Word: masterworks
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...readers the first two books in his extraordinary multiple-volume novel. Men of Good Will (TIME. June 5, 1933). Undertaking nothing less than a vast, comprehensive picture of modern society in motion, a work which might run to 25 such books. Jules Romains warned the readers of his masterwork that they must expect to encounter in it just such confusions and uncertainties as they found in life itself. The first four books, each as long as an ordinary novel, constituted the preface to the entire work. They introduced a hundred odd characters drawn from every level of Parisian society...
Although Jules Romains attempts to make each volume of his masterwork intelligible in its own right, the stories are so interwoven that Men of Good Will must be read from the beginning to be appreciated. While Jules Romains excels in his portraits of ambitious and resourceful men and outlines their maneuvers with skill, his characters are for the most part singularly even and controlled individuals. They may be troubled or at peace, but they are not ravaged by the intellectual and emotional passions that lift the characters of Joyce, of Proust, Mann and Dostoevski to more than human stature...
...newspapers, as professor of political economy at the University of Lausanne, Pareto's transatlantic reputation grew slowly after his death in 1923 and was almost entirely limited to academic circles. Last week Professor Arthur Livingston looked upon the publication of his translation of Pareto's four-volume masterwork as the realization of 15 years of "dreams and efforts," the fruit of 9,000 hours of personal toil, a triumph over international difficulties, and claimed the honor of having been the first to publish a U. S. note on Pareto as well as the first to complete a translation...