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 Miss Marguerite GRÉPON
Our charming collaborator Miss Marguerite Grépon, who began her literary career a few years ago with a delicate novel, now offers us "The Beautiful Interrupted Journey." This work is one of those that, from the outset, interests, captivates, and seduces. It is impossible, and this is one of its great merits, to classify it in a known genre. Its author, since it was necessary to qualify her, calls her a "romancero." We won't quibble over this, because the word, evocative of amorous and heroic Spain, is lovely. Simply put, The Beautiful Interrupted Journey could well be a poem, a poem of modern feeling and life, a poem in which a young girl expresses herself entirely, without reticence or vain need to surprise.
The book is composed in two rhythms, one harmonious and free, the other almost classical, which know how to unite. Following the storyteller's fleeting emotions, it takes us on a journey to the Orient, to the Riviera, to the sleepy province. Its subtitle could be "Woman and Love." But how much its discretion and elegance restrain itself from certain brutalities.
Thus, the discerning will find a select delight. No doubt, the general public will also be seduced by all that these countries exude in youth and freshness.
Has Miss Marguerite Grépon found a new timbre in the somewhat dissonant orchestra of literary production: banjo, fife, or flute? She knows how to be familiar, sometimes, never banal; often pathetic. The settings of the beautiful journey to which she invites us follow one another, as diverse as the beings who animate them. The landscape is never monotonous or banal.
Success will crown the gifts and efforts of a young artist who works in silence and enriches her mind and sensitivity every day. The book she has just given us is better than a rich promise. Then, without a doubt, to our joy, the "beautiful journey" will resume.
We are particularly pleased to congratulate a contributor who adorns everything she touches with elegance and smiling charm.
ANDRE RASTIER.
P.S. The book is illustrated with several woodcuts by Miss Lucette Bayon, whose fine talent is well-known. It is regrettable that the artist is somewhat let down by a print of insufficient clarity.
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