Claudel prose, mags

I read an issue of Eclectic Reading, The New Yorker, The New Scientist and The Economist since my last post. I also read a volume of Claudel's prose works, which are mostly cultural criticism. I usually don't read collections of newspaper articles, but I made an exception in this case. I liked what he had to say as asides, and he apparently didn't write book length stuff. Here is a quote form Accompagnements, p. 632 of my edition: "C'est tout autre chose de faire marcher neuf personnages, chacun avec sa physionomie, sa vocation, sa ligne personnelle... en sorte que pas un de leurs mouvements concertes soit inutile a l'action, au profit, pour la solution, d'un probleme vraiment foncier, d'interet profond et general et generateur a son tour d'autres problemes concentriques." This is exactly my ideal.

And on p.4 of Positions et propositions, "La parole ecrite est employee a deux fins: ou bien nous voulons produire dans l'esprit du lecteur un etat de connaissance, ou bien un etat de joie." Possibly performance art is meant to be like poetry, not entirely understood.