The Restrained Passion With Which Vercors Is Able To Render
his love or hatred, his admiration or contempt, cannot fail to move those of us who regard the sceptical apathy of the moment, not as a symptom of convalescence, but as the......
The First Story, Which Is Called " La Marche A
ritoile," purports to be the authentic biography of Thomas Muritz, an elderly Moravian who had become naturalised in France. Early in the nineteenth century the Muritz family......
Marginal Comment
By HAROLD NICOLSON I N considering the work of any write: it is always interesting, and often difficult, to distinguish between his immediate and his ultimate value, between the......
To What Extent Was The Effect Produced Upon Us By
the first book of Vercors, as by the poems of Aragon, an adventitious effect? Is Vercors really an important writer, or merely a man of fine character and sensibility who writes......
In His Second Story, Entitled "le Songe," Vercors Treats Of
the familiar contrast between the individual and the universal conscience. He considers how, in our waking life, in the "sordid solitude" imposed upon us by our personal......
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