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Wallace Fowlie

Book Reviews

Summer 1960

Two Biographies of Molière

By Wallace Fowlie

Molière: The Man Seen Through The Plays by Ramon Fernandez. Translated by Wilson Follett. Hill and Wang, New York, 1958. Dramabook printing, 1960. Molière: The Comic Mask by D. B. […]

Book Reviews

Winter 1948

Hero Taking His Time

By Wallace Fowlie

The Journals of André Gide. Volume 1. Translated by Justin O’Brien. Knopf. $5.00   In the summer of 1939, the publication in Paris of the Pléiade edition of Gide’s Journal […]

Nonfiction

Spring 1943

François Mauriac

By Wallace Fowlie

François Mauriac belongs to the generation of French writers born between two other generations: the first, including Claudel, Gide, Proust, and Valéry, all of whom were born about 1870; and […]