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Knowing the East.(Book review)
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KNOWING THE EAST. By Paul Claudel. Translated by James Lawler. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. 136 pp.
Fifty years after his death, Paul Claudel (1868-1955) is remembered for many things. Not only was he a major twentieth-century poet and playwright, he was an astute observer of Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese art. Not only was he the brother of sculptor Camille Claudel, he was a diplomat who lived for nearly twenty years in Asia, including a stint as the French ambassador to Japan (1921-1927). When he was elected as a member of the Academie Francaise in 1946 at ...
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