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Afin de célébrer la panthéonisation de Maurice Genevoix et rendre hommage aux morts de de la Première Guerre mondiale, le président de la République, Emmanuel Macron, s?est adressé à deux créateurs, l?un allemand vivant en France depuis plus de trente ans, l?artiste Anselm Kiefer, et l?autre français, alsacien-lorrain, le compositeur Pascal Dusapin. L?importance de cette commande publique est d?autant plus significative que, depuis un siècle, aucun artiste contemporain n?est entré au Panthéon de manière pérenne. 00Exhibition: Panthéon, Paris, France (11.11.2020).
The author of this work, Mr. Maurice Genevoix, is a second-year student at the Ecole Normale, Paris. Having finished the second year of his course and, incidentally, completed a study "on Maupassant," he was in a position to regard with pleasant anticipation the vacation due to fall in July, 1914-a month later he received his baptism of fire, and of what a fire! He supplies us with an invaluable picture of the war. In the first place, the writer is endowed with astonishing powers of observation; he sees all in a glance, he hears everything. The intense power of concentration he possesses enables him instantly to seize upon all essentials of a particular incident or scene, and so to harmonize...
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The rural novel has been the subject of surprisingly few comparative studies. Three authors have been chosen who, although representative, have not yet been adequately examined. Griese, famous in the 'Blood and Soil' era, remained active on the German literary scene into the 1970s; the nationalism of O Conaire's early works gives way to a void in the face of Irish independence; and, despite its claims of universality, Genevoix's writing is shown to remain firmly entrenched in a nationalist France. These phenomena are detailed, discussed, and compared with previous research findings on the rural novel."