Word: rochefoucauld
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...Rochefoucauld...
...novels (all have been published in England, five in the US.). His books, most of which have historical themes, are masses of epigrams marinated in a stinging mixture of metaphysics and blood. Mostly they resemble themselves, but something similar might have been the result if the Due de la Rochefoucauld had written novels with plots suggested by Jack London. Stacton writes so fast that he is able to arrange his novels in "triplets"-bouquets of three related volumes-and he turns out a triplet almost every year. Among his novels published in the U.S. are On a Balcony, about Nefertiti...
...17th century La Rochefoucauld's maxims were full of bee stings and rare perfumes. Lec's often have the smell of burnt flesh and of sickly sweet gas, the feel of barbed wire, and a vision of the world from a hollow...
...Surrealist Poet André Breton, Moreau is "the great solitary of the Rue de La Rochefoucauld who carried farthest the power of evocation." U.S. Abstractionist Mark Tobey said of his work: "There are 200 years of painting here." Other observers might feel more inclined to agree with the art critic of Lettres Françaises: "I don't believe there is a public in 1961 that could lay claim to being drawn to this parade of dandies, she-animals, androgynes and all the comics of mythology. The form is thin, compromised by heavy preoccupation with detail. The landscapes...
...Some are glorified by their faults; others are damned by their virtues," wrote La Rochefoucauld. And The Cousins, an Adult Fable which rolled in from France a while back on the crest of the "new wave," sighs that, though very sad, this is a fact of life...