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INTRODUCTION1, Claudel and BarraultIn June 1939, Jean-Louis Barrault visited Claudel in Brangues, the poet's home in Savoie, for the express purpose of asking permission to produce three plays, not one of which had been performed professionally at that time. After naming the three titles: Tete...

INTRODUCTION Of Mary, Mother of the Lord, the Church has said great things. The dogma defined in 1854 declares her to have been sinless from the first moment of her conception—never, that is, to have borne the human heritage known as original sin. The dogma defined in 1950 declares not only...

FOREWORD In appearance, Professor Heidegger is short and slight; his hair is thick and jet black with occasional white streaks. When he emerged from the small skiing hut, high up in the mountains, to greet me, he was dressed in the costume of a Swabian peasant, a dress he often also used to wear...

Darnius is a drab, sandy town in Catalonia, between Gerona and the Pyrenees in the middle of the piain of Ampurdân. Because of its closeness to the frontier it has—or, rather, it had—undergone certain French influence in its customs, clothing, and turns of speech. Many inhabitants of Darnius...