Books: Revolution Described

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MAN'S FATE — Andre Malraux — Smith & Haas ($2.50). When U. S. readers think of French novels (shutting their eyes to such frankly below-the-belt writers as Colette, such big-town cutups as Jean Cocteau), they are apt to call to mind the ironic stoicism of Anatole France, the cork-lined memory of Marcel Proust, or the glassy stare of Andre Gide. Of late years French literature seemed to have moved from the venereal into the neurotic ward, but it had not yet been given a clean bill of health. With Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey...

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