Critical Essay by Katherine Woods
["Judith Madrier"] is set against the background of the early months of the war and was written during [Troyat's] own service as an officer with...
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Critical Essay by Frederic Morton
[In "The Red and the White,"] Henri Troyat painted, with considerable effect, the impact of the Russian Revolution on the Danovs, an upper-middle-class...
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Critical Essay by Henri Peyre
[Henri Troyat] is no experimenter, no champion of the antinovel, no acrobatic wielder of sentences annoyingly deprived of punctuation. He does not play at making time re...
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Critical Essay by Richard Freedman
To reconcile Tolstoy the pure artist with Tolstoy the demonridden preacher is the formidable task challenging his biographer. It has been superbly met by Henri Troy...
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Critical Essay by James Lord
[In "Tolstoy" it] is not a mere life that Troyat presents; it is a vast spectacle, a pageant, a panorama. It is an immense miracle play of the human situati...
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Critical Essay by V. S. Pritchett
One's first impression of Henri Troyat's remarkable [Tolstoy] is that we have read all this before and again and again, either in the novels or the fam...
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Critical Essay by M. J. Harrison
[La Neige en Deuil (The Mountain)] is a tale of great simplicity, yet one cannot fail to be struck by the quantity of imagery to be found in it. Troyat has achieved t...
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Critical Essay by V. S. Pritchett
Henri Troyat's "Dostoyevsky" and "Pushkin" were sound biographies. His "Tolstoy" was quite exceptional in its intima...
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Critical Essay by Adrianne Blue
[Head in the Clouds] is a cloying book, dreary. Troyat occupies a universe which is pre-Sarraute, pre-Camus, indeed apparently contemporaneous with Maupassant's...
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Critical Essay by Richard Plant
Dostoevsky's life, as clearly and movingly demonstrated by M. Troyat [in "Firebrand"], was an amazing triumph of the spirit over matter and circum...
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Critical Essay by Marc Slonim
The chief merit of the [biography "Pushkin"] is at the same time its main defect. While the book succeeds to a considerable extent in recreating an authent...
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Critical Essay by Henri Peyre
["My Father's House"] has less psychological originality than Troyat's early novels. It is the first part of a trilogy in which the author ha...
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Critical Essay by Virgilia Peterson
In "My Father's House" which spans the twenty-five years before the outbreak of the first world war Mr. Troyat sets out to write the chronicle...
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Critical Essay by Wilbur Watson
["The Mountain,"] Henri Troyat's vivid story of an Alpine climb and its tragic aftermath is one of the best this reader has encountered. It has th...
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Critical Essay by Doris Grumbach
[In The Mountain, a] plane for Calcutta crashes on a Swiss Alp. Its passengers are all presumed dead, but it is carrying as well a cargo of gold for England. Two brot...
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Critical Essay by James Gray
"The Red and the White" offers a clear echo of one major literary accomplishment and in its form it challenges a second masterpiece. There are similarities,...
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Critical Essay by Henri Peyre
"The Red and the White" is Troyat's most ambitious and most successful novel to date. It is a variegated picture of Russia during World War I and th...
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Paris (dpa) - One of the most popular French writers of the 20th
century, Henri Troyat, has died at the age of 95, the daily Le Figaro
reported Monday.
The au...
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Russian-born writer Henri Troyat, who moved to France as a child and became one of the most prolific, popular and respected writers of his adopted country, has died, a fellow writer said. He was 95...
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World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a ...
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