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...Gold! It's Gold!" Flaubert's simpletons are a Mutt & Jeff pair. François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard is fat and gay, Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet thin and dour. When they come into some money, they move to Normandy and become gentlemen-farmers, foreseeing "mountains of fruit, torrents of flowers, avalanches of vegetables." Pan and brush in hand, Pécuchet tramps the roads for fertilizer. When others contemptuously hold their noses, Bouvard cries, "But it's gold! It's gold!" Too much "gold" burns out the strawberry patch...
...COMPANY OF MEN (248 pp.)-Romain Gary-Simon & Schuster...
What makes Novelist Romain Gary's pessimism significant is that it is not just the outpouring of a maladjusted highbrow. Gary is no Sartre watching life as a spectator. A French career diplomat now stationed in Bern, Switzerland, he has behind him a solid record as a fighter pilot in the French Air Force, which he joined in 1938. His novel, written in 1947-48, shows the extent to which many in Europe had lost heart, and lost their grip on the beliefs that made Europe great, in the fifth decade of the 20th Century...
...Communist faith as Novelist Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast and a whole bevy of Daily Worker staffers: ex-New Masses Editor Joseph North, his onetime Executive Editor A. B. Magil, Ben Field. It included at least one former Communist Party official: V. J. Jerome (real name: Isaac Romain...
Last week, 189 years after his death, George Frederick Handel was more widely talked-about than ever. Sir Newman Flower's revised edition of his scholarly George Frideric Handel, His Personality and His Times had just been published in the U.S. (Scribner; $6); the late Romain Rolland's Essays on Music (Allen, Towne & Heath; $5) had a fat chapter on him. Handelian Robert Manson Myers had written a book-Handel's Messiah, a Touchstone of Taste (Macmillan; $5), out next week-on his greatest oratorio. Handel was not always so well treated...