SOURCE: "Paris Letter," in The Dial, Chicago, Vol. LXXI, August, 1921, pp. 209-12.

In the following excerpt, Pansaers places the work of Morand, particularly Tendres Stocks, alongside that of notable modernist artists and writers.

Marcel Proust is the neo-classicist, at the opposite pole from Francis Picabia, the extremist, the tumultuous innovator. Oscillating between the two and linking them are Paul Morand on one side and Jean Cocteau on the other, both trying to steer an intelligent course between these two extremes. . . .

In his Feuilles de Temperature M. Paul Morand seemed to place himself very close to the extreme advance guard; he now gives us in Tendres Stocks almost a return to the stable equilibrium, the manner of Marcel Proust. In three studies he depicts three successive states of his being, with assurance and by luminous images. He confesses that he prefers the fanciful Aurore to inconsistent and changeable Clarisse...