SOURCE: "From the French," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 1123, July 26, 1923, p. 500.

In the following excerpt from a review of Open All Night, the critic praises Morand's ability to describe his subjects vividly.

We should never suspect that we were reading a foreign work but for the imperturbable and un-English gesture with which M. Morand displays [in Open All Night) the aberrations and barbaric follies of civilization. In the "Sixday Night" which evokes the garish excitement of an international bicycle race—the resting teams in their dressing-rooms lit with a search-light so that the public may miss nothing, the thin circle of competitors ceaselessly sweeping round the illuminated track, the odours and manners of the despotic crowd—all is set down with such concreteness and colour that we can recall without fear the ranker pages of the Satyricon. M. Morand's prose is a development of the écriture artiste...