Tasma

Valuable works such as Alain Tasma's October 17, 1961, Philippe Faucon's La Trahison and Laurent Herbiet/Costa-Gavras's Mon colonel unearth long-buried crimes and experiences.

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, fests, etc, 4/2. 2007

Like most of the chief contributors to Australian literature, Tasma is a colonist in experience only.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

Tasma is seldom so pleasing as when describing the characters of children, of whom several figure prominently in her novels.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

Tasma, as one of the younger writers, has rightly seen that, for the present at all events, more than sufficient use has been made in fiction of the natural peculiarities of Australia.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

Indeed, judged by some of her early work in the reviews, and by the little philosophic exordiums with which she opens so many of her chapters, Tasma would have made a brilliant essayist.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

The superiority of Silas Lapham as a realistic portrait is not difficult to affirm; still, it is a fact complimentary to Tasma that the characters thus far approximate.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

It would seem that Tasma regards broadly humorous exaggeration to be scarcely compatible with her somewhat grave style, for in all the later stories her satire, if not less pungent, is of a quieter kind.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

This work occupied from 1880 to 1882, and Tasma was presented by the French Government with the decoration of Officier d'Académie.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

Written when Tasma was about thirty-two, it embodied some of the best fruits of many years 'keenly critical study of life, in addition to the culture gained by travel and a wide course of reading.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

Tasma does not approach any nearer to that writer's supreme gift of describing character in dialogue than scores of others who have followed the same model during the last seventy years.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne