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...Tunis cheering Moslems by the thousands turned out in the streets to welcome Nationalist Leader Habib Bourguiba back from Paris. In his pocket, the triumphant Neo-Destour party leader carried a protocol, in which the French government officially recognized his nation's independence. But even this triumph was not enough. "It is inconceivable," said Bourguiba, "that Tunisia on one side and Morocco on the other should enjoy independence while Algeria, which lies between them, remains under the colonialist yoke...
Latin Brio. The neo-pagan life of love and love of life revealed to Carmela in these reveries make The Film of Memory a sensuous shelfmate to David Garnett's recently published Aspects of Love (TIME, Jan. 30). French Novelist Maurice Druon, a Prix Goncourt winner, applies Latin brio and an urbane Gallic prose style to his tale, and he can navigate the rapids of a zany stream of consciousness without drowning the reader...
...What? Is life over already?" Via Veneto Glitter. Amid the eerie indirections of the countess' mind, Novelist Druon subtly contrasts the past glories of Rome with the Via Veneto glitter of the present day. The countess celebrates the life of blazing passion and pleasure on a neo-Renaissance scale, but Author Druon is too steady-eyed to blink what Cyril Connolly has called "the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Oddly enough, it is the countess' way of dying rather than living that is memorable. Pacing half-crazed on the burning deck of her memories...
Tunisia is represented in Cairo by Salah ben Youssef, exiled leader of the extremist wing of the Neo-Destour, who hates his fellow Party Leader Habib Bourguiba for accepting "interdependence" with France. Last week France granted Tunisia independence, and next week Tunisia will hold its first election. But in Tunisia's south ern mountains Salah ben Youssef's supporters flared into revived rebellion...
Patrick soon runs an erotic fever of his own over a nubile, neo-pagan teenager named Soula. Little more than fugitive kisses and caresses, the affair with Soula is tragically complicated by the fact that her brother Stavro, a boy with crypto-homosexual longings, feels he should rank first in Patrick's affections. By novel's end, Soula has died at her brother's hand. Resignedly estranged from each other, Patrick and Iris leave Corfu chewing the bitter rind of memory, all that is left of their brief repast of the juices and joys of the sensuous...