Chevalier, Haakon 1902-1985

Hidden faces by Salvador Dalí( Book )

20 editions published between 1944 and 2019 in English and French and held by 384 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In Salvador Dalí's only novel, the reader enters the bizarre world already familiar to us from his paintings. Dalí describes, in vividly visual terms, the intrigues and love affairs of a group of dazzling, eccentric aristocrats who, with their luxurious and extravagant lifestyle, symbolize the decadence of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of World War II, constitutes a brilliant and dramatic vehicle for Dalí’s vision and reads as an epitaph of pre-war Europe

Chinese art & culture by René Grousset( Book )

7 editions published between 1959 and 1960 in English and held by 372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Study of 4,000 years of Chinese civilization, dealing primarily with Chinese art. 80 illustrations, 16 in color

The death of a nobody by Jules Romains( Book )

5 editions published between 1944 and 1976 in English and held by 347 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The subject of this modern classic is not a man. "It is an event," says Jules Romains, who is considered "the French Dos Passos." The event starts with the death of Jacques Godard, a man of no importance. It unfolds through his brief survival in the minds of others - the porter of his tenement in Paris, his fellow lodgers, a few acquaintances, his old father, who comes up from the country for the funeral, a young stranger who feels that the dead pass into "a great soul that cannot die." The event expresses Romains's belief in "collective beings," the famous theory of "Unanimism." In dramatizing his theory, Romains developed an advanced motion-picture technique when films were in their infancy, a technique of group portraits and sudden shifts from scene to scene that keeps this work far ahead of conventional novels. Here, Romains explores the ideas and the devices used in his twenty-seven-volume masterpiece, Men of Good Will, which André Maurois calls "the boldest attempt to describe completely his own time that any French novelist has made since Balzac."--Goodreads

The man who would be God by Haakon Chevalier( Book )

29 editions published between 1959 and 1966 in 4 languages and held by 347 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Famous American physicist sacrifices everything - his health, family and friends - to his determination that the atomic bomb be built and used

Toward the African revolution : political essays by Frantz Fanon( Book )

6 editions published between 1967 and 1988 in English and held by 258 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The political essays, articles, and notes by Frantz Fanon published in the present volume cover the most active period of his life, from the publication of Peau Noir, Masques Blancs [Black skin, white masks] in 1952 - he was then twenty-eight years old - to that of Les Damnés de la Terra [The wretched of the earth] in 1961 which was to coincide, within a matter of days, with the date of his death."--Editorial note

The ironic temper; Anatole France and his time by Haakon Chevalier( Book )

11 editions published in 1932 in English and held by 253 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Army of shadows by Joseph Kessel( Book )

7 editions published between 1944 and 1945 in English and held by 242 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel's Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra Mundum Press is proud to present the first new translation in over 70 years, and the first edition since Jean-Pierre Melville's iconic 1969 film. "What, then, when it comes to recounting the story of France, an obscure, secret France, which is new to its friends, its enemies, and new especially to itself? France no longer has bread, wine, fire. But mainly it no longer has any laws. Civil disobedience, individual or organized rebellion, have become duties to the fatherland. The national hero is the clandestine man, the outlaw. Nothing about the order imposed by the enemy and by the Marshal is valid. Nothing counts. Nothing is true any more. One changes home, name, every day. Officials and police officers are helping insurgents. One finds accomplices even in ministries. Prisons, getaways, tortures, bombings, scuffles. One dies and kills as if it's natural. France lives, bleeds, in all its depths. It is toward the shadow that its true and unknown face is turned. In the catacombs of revolt, people create their own light and find their own law. Never has France waged a nobler and more beautiful war than in the basements where it prints its free newspapers, in its nocturnal lands, and in its secret coves where it received its free friends and from where its children set out, in torture cells where, despite tongs, red-hot pins, and crushed bones, the French died as free men." --

Three short novels by Vercors( Book )

2 editions published in 1947 in English and held by 220 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Roman journal by Stendhal( Book )

11 editions published between 1957 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Home is the hunter by Gontran de Poncins( Book )

3 editions published between 1943 and 1945 in English and held by 183 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A retired, elderly servant reminisces when he is called back temporarily to the family he had served for forty years