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...Harold A. Waters © 1959 University of Washington 1959 PAUL CLAUDEL AND THE SENSORY PARADOX By HAROLDA. WATERS In the theater and poetry of Paul Claude1 there are so many state- ments and situations that seem to go against...

...E. Kerrigan Prescott Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 PAUL CLAUDEL THE TRANSCENDENCE OF TEMPORAL FLUX By E. KERRIGANPRESCOTT One of the most notable characteristics of twentieth-century Euro- pean...

... was the Sietzsche to Claudel’s Wagner, bearing in mind the latter’s flaniboy- 4 Arthur Rimbaud, Oeicvres de Arthur Rimbad, hiercure de France (Paris. 1952), 9. 248. 238 St.-John Perse ant drama with all the stops pulled out and the severe, epic lyricism of the former with its ring...

... lead on the soul-snatchers (Claudel and Jammes) while shrewdly taking down their measure for posterity: “Jammes has written to me on skyblue paper a parish priest letter which reminds me of Pourceaugnac’s doctors trying to persuade him that he is ill” (p. 92); and on Claudel, devastatingly...

... ni i gauche et le centre pour lui n’est pas trks sir. Des Ccrivains dont nous parlerons, Claudel, Massis, Duhamel, Cdline, et Alain, lui reprochent d’itre destructeur des traditions litti- raires et philosophiques les plus respectables; ValCry et Sartre le trouvent trop neutre...

... to conceal behind an intellectual attitude toward reality ; also the erotic obsession that motivated much of his writing. The purpose of the last essay, “Interpretation of an Ode by Paul Claudel,” may be found in the first and last sentences of the first paragraph: “One stanza . . . from one...

..., Claudel, Valiry, Colette, Girau- doux, Roger Martin du Gard, Mauriac, Duhamel, Jules Romains, Montherlant, Green, Malraux, Saint Exupdry. There are more, such as Maurres, Bernanos, Mine, Giono, who will be treated in a forth- coming volume. Our space being strictly limited we can only...

... Claudel par leur sincdritC nous font sortir de la littkrature, ce qui peut facilement s’accorder, mais il va jusqu’i Cgaler le premier au second. I1 est tout de m6me difficile de voir en PCguy un poltte de la connaissance cornme tend A le devenir le Claudel du Soutier de Satin et de...

... the Old Dodger’s paces. A note of lighthearted- ness creeps in, as we watch Gide lead on the soul-snatchers (Claudel and Jammes) while shrewdly taking down their measure for posterity: “Jammes has written to me on skyblue paper a parish priest letter which reminds me of Pourceaugnac’s doctors...

... “grimoire” before the sonorous union of drama and music; nevertheless, he remained convinced of the superiority of literature over music and probably did not disapprove of young Claudel who wrote to him, on May 25, 1895, that he detested music, “that mad woman who knows not what she says...

... in incorporat- ing this negative epistemological differential into the body of his text -and that in a manner reminiscent of Peguy and Claudel. Like them, he has a weakness for litanies, for modulations governed by a central etymological or semantic idea. Stubbornly, he belabors his leitmotivs 212...

... uses poetic idioms which become ever more subtle. He lives, however, as a phantom, and his name is still invoked whenever men gaze at their strange destiny. In this connection, the pages written by Claudel in reference to MallarmC are extremely lucid ; they also show that modern...

... younger than himself and unfortunately drew a line after Claudel, Gide, Proust, Maurois, and Mauriac. He seldom indulged in the dis- cussion of technique and style. With all these limitations, however, Du Bos strikes us today as the deepest and often the most subtle literary sensibility...

..., as its demigods, and never has their fas- cination held greater sway. In 1951, a questionnaire sent to the twenty- year-olds elicited their preferences among living writers as topped by Malraux, Claudel, Montherlant, Cocteau. Among nineteenth-century writers, the favored ones were Stendhal...

... to observe than to judge. Yet here and there one will come across a personal reaction: Francis Jammes “si peu artiste,” and Claudel, “tellement artiste” ; or again : “l’ceuvre magnifique de Jules Ro- mains,” capped with the opinion that posterity will offer to the Honzmes de bonne volonti “un...

...- prints. As for errors and omissions, life is too brief for this reviewer to do more than guess that they are at a minimum, though one might cite Jeune’s failure to dwell sufficiently on the Indianism of Claudel’s 1892-1893 Echange, or even to mention Anne Vercors’ comments on America...

... to a decidedly cultivated public, although he does not include many authors mentioned by Mr. Baldensperger. The figures treated are Gide, Claudel, Valiry, Colette, Girau- doux, Roger Martin du Gard, Mauriac, Duhamel, Jules Romains, Montherlant, Green, Malraux, Saint Exupdry. There are more...

.... There are scarcely any mis- prints. As for errors and omissions, life is too brief for this reviewer to do more than guess that they are at a minimum, though one might cite Jeune’s failure to dwell sufficiently on the Indianism of Claudel’s 1892-1893 Echange, or even to mention Anne Vercors’ comments...

... his- torian, interested in his categories, may easily speak of ‘Christian vs. pagan poetry,’ this uersus, the sign of a historical struggle of cultures, is reenacted in Claudel’s soul and is embodied in the linguistic form of the poem” (p. 194). The thorough training that Spitzer...

...- vers, dont je ne sais mtme pas avec certitude s’il existe, est le plus inutile, plusle gratuite- ment vain qui se puisse rher.”Jacques RiviCre et Paul Claudel, Correspondance, I907- 1914 (Paris, p. 99;1926), referred to hereafter as Corr. R-CL HELEN THOMAS NAUGHTON...