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PARTISAN REVIEW
and
Lyonnel Feininger. Amedee Ozenfant
is on the faculty of the New
School for Social Research in New York City, where he will be joined this
spring by
Gordon Onslow-Ford.
More recent arrivals include
Yves Tan·
guy, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger.
Salvador Dali,
falsely reported in a Spanish prison, is apparently on
good terms with the Spanish government. When he arrived in this country
in August, he was reported by the Spanish ambassador to have bought
some property near his former home in Spain and otherwise to have indi·
cated that his sympathies lie with fascism. Dali has not commented on this
statement. Perhaps his autobiography, which he is now writing in Vir·
ginia, will tell us more.
View
reported, with some hesitancy and with what
truth it is hard to say, that
loan Miro
is now collaborating with the French
government in its propaganda work. Other sources report him in Majorca;
others in Spain.
Pierre Loeb
has re-opened his Paris gallery (Galerie Pierre) with a
modern exhibition. Despite signs of "Magasin Juif'' on the windows
it
is
being enthusiastically attended.
WRITERS
Many of the French poets are back in Paris.
Benjamin Peret
and
Paul Elun,rd
are there; the reports that they were taken prisoner are appar·
ently without basis.
Georges Hugnet
and
Paul Valery
are there.
Patrice
de la Tour du Pin
was wounded and captured during the first weeks of the
war; he is still a prisoner somewhere in Germany.
Pierre Mabille
is in
Martinique and may come to the United States.
Andre Malraux
enlisted in a French tank division at the outbreak of
the war. He was wounded and taken prisoner in June and escaped late in
November. At present he is safe in unoccupied France, engaged in writing
a novel about the war.
lean Giraudoux
is director of propaganda at Vichy.
Henri Bergson
died recently in Paris.
Roger Marttn du Gard
is in Nice.
Fraru;ois Mauriac
is at his home near Bordeaux.
Romain Rolland
is still
in Switzerland.
Andre Gide
and
Andre Breton
are in the south of France.
Louis Aragon,
like Malraux, served in the French tank corps, was cap·.
tured, later escaped from a German prison camp. He is variously reported
in Lisbon- waiting to come to this country- and in unoccupied France,
writing a new novel (non-political) .
Antoine de St. Exupery
arrived
here on December 30.
Jules Romains
had come some time before, as also
Henri Bernstein,
whose anti-Nazi play
Elvire
closed in Paris only on June
6.
Alexis Leger
is in this country writing his memoirs.
Boris Nikolaievsky,
Paris director of the Institute of Social History
and co-author of
Karl Marx: Man
and
Fighter,
is now in Washington.
/ames Ioyce
died on January 13, 1941, in Zurich, Switzerland, after a
stomach operation.
Sigrid Undset
and
Maurice Maeterlinck
arrived in this
country several months ago.
Ignazio Silone
is still in exile in Switzerland.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
is in Buenos Aires. In Mexico, with many others, are
Ramon Sender
and
Esteban Frances.
