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Critic of Civilization - Georges Duhamel and His Writings (Paperback)
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Critic of Civilization - Georges Duhamel and His Writings (Paperback)
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As one of the outstanding minds of France, the career of George
Duhamel reflects the universal range of his interests. A physician
turned poet, playwright, novelist, publicist, critic, and world
traveler, Duhamel for half a century has sought as a liberal
humanist to defend the moral and aesthetic values of Western
civilization against the encroachment of a dehumanizing machine
age. Duhamel first achieved fame as a writer with two eloquent
outcries against war in Vie des Martyrs and Civilisation, written
while he was a front-line surgeon during World War I. His later
plays and novels continued to deal with the search of the
individual for identity in contemporary life, especially in the
Salavin series and the ten-volume Chronique des Pasquier, his
outstanding works of fiction. Among the commentaries on other
cultures arising from his travels, Duhamel's scathing criticism of
the United States in Scenes de la vie future aroused particular
furor. It is in Duhamel's feeling for humanity, Mr. Keating
believes, that one may discover the consistent pattern in Duhamel's
work, essentially the passionate reaction of a surgeon-artist to
the cruelties of a war-torn world. In this critical biography of
Duhamel as writer and thinker, Mr. Keating therefore relates all of
Duhamel's many-sided activities to his underlying purpose -- to
find a path for individual happiness in the complexities of
contemporary life.
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