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EXILE'S RETURN-Malcolm Cowley- Norton...
...crowd of prodigal sons who refused to come home, this Lost Generation was the self-consciously intellectual counterpart of the late U. S. phenomenon, Flaming Youth. Except for a few Peter Pans and a few suicides, these War Babies have now-grown up. In Exile's Return Malcolm Cowley takes a good look at his literary generation, admits "it was an easy, quick, adventurous age, good to be young in; and yet on coming out of it one feels a sense of relief, as on coming out of a closed, smoky room too full of talk and people into...
...Author Cowley calls his book "a narrative of ideas." His composite hero is a youth of middle-class background and literary ambitions who graduated from college between 1916 and 1922. School and college began the long process of deracination. ''Looking backwards, I feel that our whole training was involuntarily directed toward destroying whatever roots we had in the soil, toward eradicating our local and regional peculiarities, toward making us homeless citizens. . . . We came to feel that wisdom was an attribute of Greece and art of the Renaissance, that glamour belonged only to Paris or Vienna and that glory...
...lanced for a living, began to colonize Connecticut with weekend or summer cottages. The crash of 1929 and the depression sobered them further, turned the majority into politically-minded (usually leftwing) writers, complete with careers, creeds and clientele. Right-wing readers will find little to sympathize with in Author Cowley's narrative. They will not be amused by his account of Dada, most extreme of modern French literary cults, whose founder, Tristan Tzara, appeared at a public meeting and "read aloud a newspaper article, while an electric bell kept ringing so that nobody could hear what he said...
Christian Arthur Wellesley, 4th Earl Cowley, a great-great-grandnephew of the Duke of Wellington, who last June married a hat-checker in a Reno. Nev. night club, announced that he had bought a ranch in Washoe Valley, Nev.. planned to renounce his seat in the House of Lords, become a U. S. citizen. Explained he: "My wife and the life of the West mean more to me than titles. We shall be immensely happy on our little ranch. We shall have sufficient pasture for my horses, raise a little hay, and settle down to being happy...