Word: brinig
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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LAST year Myron Brinig published "Singermann", acclaimed by the late Arnold Bennett as one of the most important American novels of the year. In "Wide Open Town", Mr. Brinig returns to the same setting: a copper mining camp, sprawled over a hill in western Montana, with a population of fifty thousand people, most of them alien...
...being a carbon copy, slightly blurred at the edges, of "Singermann." The failure this time of the author to portray this particular phase of the American scene is primarily due of the American scene is primarily due to the besetting sin of his reliance on "local color." Mr. Brinig has grown up in the city he pictures, he knows its legends and its individuality at first hand--and he had done nothing more than photograph them. He makes no attempt to interpret the originality of his scene, but is content merely to reproduce. The reproduction, too, suffers from the immense...
...there, but his efforts to prove "the torrent and ecstasy of life" are hopelessly inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig devotes himself to an exhaustive analysis of his characters, and finally they, under this pressure, disappear into a rarified atmosphere, incompatible with the gusto of his background. The hero has been on dowed with a sensitive and poetic nature that it patently ridiculous in view of his mentality...