Books:The Middle Parts of Fortune/The Wars:
Taylor, Mark
troops "Old Hickory," and hailed by the independence that the settlement sig- for some time thereafter, for them, the people of the frontier as their protector. nified and Jackson's...
...in the without orders after the Spanish governor when Henry Clay and others attempted to trenches, they do not sound inauthentic...
...20005 number of words, some of them in many nent among them is the conception of its instances, that in England and America protagonist, the mysterious Bourne: "He were unacceptable in print in 1930 and felt curiously isolated even from [his best Commonweal: 26 friends in the company...
...In this anyway, as one can judge from reading book of essays centered on the problems Nor does Gay have a word to say about Freud's sad comment on the death of the the novels, poems, and memoirs of Man- of German Jews in modem times, he ning and his contemporaries...
...Such was Jackson's heroic stature in tions, are in fact inauthentic imitations Near total collapse, he invaded Florida the wake of the war that four years later, of the speech of the B.E.F...
...Not a great tacti- points out, Jackson was carrying out the gests, or seems to, to an American ear, cian, he achieved his monumental vic- implicit orders of the Monroe administra- what an English soldier should have said tory through the combination of luck and tion...
...complicated, Mark Taylor Lawrence), but its progenitor, The Mid- and very funny sentence reads identically dle Parts of Fortune, Manning's original in both versions...
...the night as well has its wonders...
...Some ing: "What these luxurious creatures [the Frederic Manning editor at St...
...sir.' replied Jackson's victory...
...There contradicting psychoanalysis...
...Every page seems to have forgotten that there were rebel Alfred Adler...
...Could it be that Freud is to miss this second half of his war's I HAD come," Peter Gay...
...We are never informed usually, by sacrificing the "feel" of the giveness, other Germans had committed that he was scared stiff by Nietzsche...
...Durfee Prohas climbed out of his grave to protest the significance, and to see it instead as akin fessor of History at Yale, tells us, appalling reverence of this admirer...
...Bourne very quietly...
...For a Jew boy out of a this assertion...
...This is a fact, if we may trust Lou thing, what it was like to be there...
...State, John Quincy Adams, whose conti- America or regarded as very shocking...
...THE URGE to quote myself proves ir- novel of the Great War, which was pub- If, however, The Middle Parts of Forresistible...
...Even though the war had already nental vision depended very much on a There is one anomalous place in Her ended before the battle of New Orleans, Jackson to make it a reality...
...139-44) of a chlorine gas rificing their ideals...
...it is reach...
...The figures sor of English at Bergen College...
...Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture into solemn statues larger than life set on To call it a crime against mankind is to Peter Gay pedestals too high for human eyes to miss at least half of its significance...
...Her Privates We less, and the essential book for which I had, and deserved, a considerable fol- wished last year is again available in this lowing for a generation or so, but The country...
...We can now read in The Middle Parts of Fortune...
...At other times, the exmorale-boosting that, was his forte as a porters of Jackson was Secretary of cised word has never been popular in commander...
...In no important respect do the two reality of the Western Front, or can tell it Arms Export Policies-Ethical Choices versions of the novel-it is accurate to more faithfully, and moreover, in addi75 cents each...
...Elsewhere in Her Privates We there is, it THE MIDDLE PARTS OF FORTUNE novel I would more like to see rein- turns out, only the appearance of rewrittroduced into print in America...
...there is, for example, the horrors of the Third Reich without sacVienna suburb, death in Aberdeen is an account (pp...
...Your heart froze Erased that not only the Ile-de-France partment at Manhattan College...
...Gay, a diligent man when it comes to But that is far from all that Mr...
...invited the British to land in reaction to censure the general for his unauthorized Sometimes, indeed, the opposite is the Jackson's threats...
...It is the the only good German was a dead Ger- That Freud was a human being with later novelist who sees the war as part of a man...
...19 January 1979: 27...
...he is described as "the the closer a novelist stands to the war Wayne Andrews Reluctant Columbus of the mind...
...Martin's Press, $8.95 [247 pp.] along similar lines, evidently, and that wanted was a man to skivvy for them...
...And what I hate FATHER R. EMMETT CURRAN, S.J., teaches these days is the people) who weren't a Nazi factory producing cables, who history at Georgetown University...
...She could recall the campaign his subject, but his handling of the evitrays the Canadian Army on the waged in her Bavarian village of dence at his disposal is open to question...
...Later on...
...Above the melee "War is waged by men," wrote Frederic Manning, "not by beasts, or by FREUD, JEWS AND OTHER GERMANS: he is writing about turn all too quickly gods...
...Ironically one of the firmest sup- sixty years ago...
...We are also the punishment of a crime...
...I don't understand of combat in The Wars could document subtle men and women who survived the your sympathy," Freud wrote one of Adler's friends...
...official word of the settlement reached Jackson personally left undone, his pro- not a word, but a row of asterisks: "He Washington nine days after the news of teges, Sam Houston and James Polk, told me to go to...
...nified and Jackson's victory were ines- later volume makes substitutions that are Jackson carefully nurtured the image...
...for this he pays, that "if some Germans did not need for- occurred to Gay...
...What Privates We where Manning substituted...
...N. W. have it...
...crimes that could not be forgiven...
...God-that makes me so angry...
...So Andreas-Salome, who came to know Not Timothy Findley...
...less colorful, and if they, the substitualso permanently shattered his health...
...E. room...
...But to say we got used to but all of France was baptized and so WAYNE ANDREWS is Archives of American it...
...to a natural disaster-if an act of God, "to understand the folly of believing that then, a gratuitous act of God...
...Art Professor at Wayne State University...
...Take Freud, for instance...
...For this, the rea1312 Massachusetts Ave...
...capably bound together in the nation's (presumably) less offensive but hardly The Creek War enlarged it, although it mind...
...As Remini whereas the "euphemism" better sugfind Jackson waiting...
...It is a peculiarly human activity...
...novel, is that he gets it right, so far, culture and German civilization...
...over-yes...
...that any novel by a participant in the War Manning did not eviscerate his crea- of 1914-18 has more to tell us of the The Arms Race: Illusion of Security tion...
...The world really ing, and as moving, as the comparable Fort who wrote in Our Road through the rewarded him richly for his services in attack in Wilfred Owen's celebrated lyric Night that "not only the light of day but "Dulce et Decorum Est...
...But then there is the probto...
...But he is their hero...
...troops "Old Hickory," and hailed by the independence that the settlement sig- for some time thereafter, for them, the people of the frontier as their protector...
...there and they look back and say we maintained in The Seal That Will Not Be MARK TAYLOR teaches in the English Debecame inured...
...No...
...Martin's had been thinking senior NCO's in the company] really St...
...60 per 100 copies say two versions, not two novels- tion to this substantial documentary Make checks payable to: differ, though since The Middle Parts of value, that any novel (again, by a particiOffice of International Peace and Justice Fortune is what Manning wanted, it is a pant) better succeeds in transforming its United States Catholic Conference just tribute to his memory that we should materials into literature...
...The Wars Professor Gay has no time, unfortu- BARBARA MUTKOSKI is an assistant profesnately, for such distinctions...
...The earlier book contains a small sons are many and various, but preemiWashington...
...It is also probably true that mind...
...When they counted monstrosities his hero Robert server, and its multiform enemies...
...The reassertion of completed...
...That is an event of considerable Middle Parts of Fortune has never before proportions, for to me it is unimaginable Now Available been generally available...
...Findley are flowers that grow only in the wilderfootnotes, has obviously read widely on has accomplished...
...What about which he writes, the more likely he does all this mean...
...Oberstdorf to allow a dead Jew to be In the war you had to face it day buried beside his gentile wife, and she REVIEWERS after day-week after week-month knew that she did not stand alone...
...There is no mention unheard-of career in itself, and proof of attack that is as realistic, and as terrify- of the gentile novelist Gertrud von Le how far he had got on...
...He was not of battlefields of Belgium in 1915 and Findley's theme is life-human life but their county, he was not even of their 1916, his subject, his title tells us, is not also the lives of horses and even country., or their religion, and he was the War but the Wars, the perhaps un- rabbits-its value, its would-be preonly partially of their race...
...I hope that Bourne's story will become widely known again...
...be said about The Wars, his third lem of distinguishing between German both men and reported that Freud found Nietzsche's mind "too rich to digest...
...the work of Frederic Manning...
...The first thing far, so good...
...Every there was the case of the half-Jewish ROBERT O. JOHANN teaches in the DepartElizabeth Langgasser, forced to slave in ment tf Philosophy at Fordham University...
...touched with the grace of God...
...That is Oxford, $12.95 [289 pp.] told that he is "the Columbus of the probably true...
...alien among them...
...day another friend...
...A refugee himself, he also felt human failings does not seem to have larger human picture...
...He told me to go to buggery, sir,"' and smile Bourne again at the British sense of propriety...
...press now offers rather more than what I and, though Bourne as a rule avoided the THE WARS was asking for: not quite Her Privates use of coarse language, he knew preTimothy Findley We, often recognized in the 1930s as cisely what he would be before he acted Delacorte Press, $8.95 [226 pp.] "the book of books so far as the British as a kind of general batman to the orderly Army-in-the-War is concerned" (T...
...About a year ago I wrote in lished in 1929, privately and anonym- tune does not offer more of consequence this magazine of Frederic Manning'sHer ously, one year before its expurgated, than Her Privates We, it does not offer Privates We, "I can hardly think of a re-named offspring...
...Then after month-year after year...
...However well he por- ness...
...this spoke of their remote villages and ham- Ross is caught up in, and finally de- theme he has crafted into an affecting and lets, or sleepy market-towns in which stroyed by, of which the Western Front is distinguished novel-in every way a nothing happened except the church but the most public and, in that precise worthy companion, many years later, to clock chiming the hour, he felt like an form, the most widely shared...
...Forced by Jackson's expulsion of the Spanish from Florida, case: paradoxically, it is the "taboo" seizure of Pensacola to invade farther Jackson was mobbed wherever he went words that sound bland and neutral, bewest than they had originally intended, and bands invariably struck up: See the cause now, after all, they are everywhere, the British chose New Orleans only to Conquering Hero Comes...
...That elegant...
Vol. 106 • January 1979 • No. 1
