ON NOVELS
Hayes, E. Nelson
Novels by E. NELSON HAYES DURING the late campaign, Adlai Stevenson repeatedly emphasized that as we have been passing from a period of scarcity to one of abun-dance, we have been creating new...
...In this sequel to The Golden Echo he recounts his experience from 1914 to 1923 and presents again a galaxy of famous figures—Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Maynard Keynes, D. H, Lawrence, and many others—who were his intimates and friends...
...306 pp...
...The hero—at least I think that's what he is—of The Big Nickelodeon by Maritta Wolff (Random House...
...The author adds that the future of the radical novel is probably with the individual rebel rather than with authors identified with political parties...
...The development of a novel as the expression of a man's inner conflicts is the concern of psychiatrist Milton L. Miller in Nostalgia (Houghton, Mifflin...
...Rideout does much to re-assert the positive achievements of this laboratory fiction, as well as to note that its ultimate significance is that of perpetuating the tradition of protest, which "will always be essential in order to stir our civilization into self-awareness...
...Auchinloss, himself a lawyer, writes extremely well about the legal profession and about the upper society of New York City in a beautifully planned and articulated novel...
...3.95) takes more than 300 long, tedious pages to find it out, an experience that no reader should even vicariously undertake...
...They contributed much to our life and literature—a new set of characters and circumstances, an emphasis on social environment, a broader understanding of the United States, a realization of the importance of common experience, and an affirmation of the novelist not only as artist but also as citizen...
...5), which illustrates through a fresh selection the variety and vitality of our poetry from the late Nineteenth Century to the present, and includes such new and distinguished poets as Robert Lowell, Chester Kallr man, and Richard Wilbur...
...Briefly Noted David Garnett continues in The Flower and the Forest (Harcourt, Brace...
...Miss Howe presents her story in a brittle, sharp prose that is often highly effective as a medium of social satire...
...In these characteristics it shares much with other types belonging to that wider category of which it is a part, the novel of social protest...
...839 pp...
...252 pp...
...That lack of wisdom is exemplified in the revival of the novel of wealth, of social position and ambition, of conformism and acceptance, and in the creation of a new Horatio Alger myth...
...371 pp...
...Finally, W. H. Auden has edited an unusual and unusually good anthology, The Criterion Book of Modern American Verse (Criterion...
...One phase of this literary change is illustrated by the sure bestseller Compulsion by Meyer Levin (Simon and Schuster...
...Novels by E. NELSON HAYES DURING the late campaign, Adlai Stevenson repeatedly emphasized that as we have been passing from a period of scarcity to one of abun-dance, we have been creating new values and new institutions...
...Miss Wolff once showed much prom-ise...
...373 pp...
...John P. Marquand, her literary father, has rightly remarked that Miss Howe has an "unerring eye for people and places," and, one might add, for the same kind of people and places that appear in his New England novels, now collected in a handsome omnibus volume, North of Grand Central (Little, Brown...
...Maggie Fraser's career takes her to Hollywood, where she is at least intelligent enough to learn quickly that it is in large part a world of frenzied phonies...
...Now he has turned his attention to the Leopold-Loeb case which was the sensation of Chicago and the nation in 1924, in another era of abundance...
...That our literature has reflected these changes is apparent from Walter B. Rideout's The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954 (Harvard...
...But more important is his often painful reconstruction of the motives for his pacifism, the story of his inner struggle as he watched the men of England struck down, and as he eased his turmoil of spirit by working with the Quakers in France...
...285 pp...
...there seems to remain of it today only a weary, worldly skill...
...their defense before a judge was conducted by Clarence Darrow, who won for them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence...
...his contemporary, Sig-mund Freud...
...6), a scholarly yet lively history of a significant though neglected literary form and of the forces which have shaped it...
...Two brilliant, wealthy, socially prominent students at the University of Chicago kidnapped and murdered a young boy...
...Using the "integrative" approach (involving dreams, neuroses, and rational behavior) as elaborated by Thomas M. French, Dr...
...4.50) what may become one of the most distinguished literary autobiographies of our time...
...5.75), which includes the sagas of George Apley, the Brills of Wickford Point, and H. M. Pulham...
...but it differs in that its political affiliation has usually been with Marxism or Socialism...
...And many other novelists, while not contributing to the genre, have profited from the lessons on its successes and also of its limitations— violence, melodrama, over-simplification, sterotyping, illogicalities, and frequent subordination of aesthetic standards to political demands...
...This lengthy, intensely exciting, eminently readable novel follows closely the facts of what Levin terms the crime and the "trial" of the century...
...Louis Auchin-loss, wiser and more conscious of moral complexities, has in The Great World and Timothy Colt (Houghton, Mifflin...
...366 pp...
...In this respect, he notes that thus far "the fifties have their own particular lack of wisdom...
...The same goddess is passionately and persistently pursued in the novel, The Success, by Helen Howe (Simon and Schuster...
...And at the same time he tells us of his development as a writer, of the materials and disciplines which were later to provide the foundations for his fiction...
...The author has produced those fine novels, The Old Bunch and Citizens, which while not of the radical genre showed careful study of and sympathy for that form...
...This is Marquand at his sparkling best as social historian...
...495 pp...
...Miller gives a fascinating account of the ways in which an artist may give an "intuitive portrayal of clinical truth," compensate for his psychological inadequacies by expressing them in universal terms, and undergo a self-therapy which prevents disintegration of personality...
...3.75) told a dramatic story of the conflict between the conscience and the artificially stimulated ambition of a young lawyer...
...3.95...
...The Horatio Alger theme of the fifties is naively expressed in Cash McCall, Sincerely Willis Wade, and a dozen other novels...
...4), in which he traces the many parallels between the writings of Marcel Proust and the theories of...
...While Levin quotes at length from the final speech of Darrow, in which the famed lawyer propounds a rather mystical determinism to lessen the guilt of the boys, he shifts from the sociological view to an amateurish psychoanalytical interpretation...
...Rideout defines the radical novel as one which "demonstrates, either explicitly or implicitly, that its author objects to the human suffering imposed by some socio-economic system and advocates that the system be fundamentally changed...
...Since 1940, there have been fewer, gut on the whole better, radical novels, notably the fiction of Albert Maltz, Richard Wright, Nelson Al-gren, Norman Mailer, and Willard Motley...
...Maggie Fraser of Beacon Hill, spoiled and selfish, destroys one marriage, corrupts a second, alienates her daughter, loses her social position, and ruins her chances for happiness in order to achieve an empty success as a "personality" of press and radio...
...In a sense, this is an analysis of Freud as artist and Proust as psychologist, a view which I find more acceptable than the usual one...
...An appendix lists about 170 examples, ranging from By Bread Alone (1900) to The Ecstasy of Owen Muir (1954) and including such diverse novels as Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, London's The Iron Heel, and Algren's The Man With the Golden Arm, and representing especially the fiction of Sinclair, Far-rell, and Fast...
...There have been two rich harvests of the radical novel, from 1900 to 1919, and from 1930 to 1940, both coincident with eras of great social, economic, and political transformation...
...1244 pp...
Vol. 20 • December 1956 • No. 12
