Books: A Man of Principle

FACE OF A HERO (221 pp.)—Pierre Boulle—Vanguard ($3.50).

In the intellectual landscape created by French Novelist Boulle, the most interesting sight is a special stream of Gallic irony. His heroes drown in it before the reader's eyes, but even as they go down it is obvious that they all know how to swim. In The Bridge Over the River Kwai it was a British colonel whose fight for honor gave aid and comfort to the Japanese. In Not the Glory, it was a German spy whose best efforts aided the British. In his new novel, laid in a sleepy Provencal town among...

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