Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world that put up with it, Poet Richard Aldington has nursed one of the most protracted literary angers of his time. Like other English writers who fought and survived, he was unable to bring his mind fully to bear on his war experience until years afterward. His first novel, Death of a Hero, was written in one grim satiric gust in 1928. Ever since then, in novel after novel, Aldington has pointed the contrast he sees between the hope of a good life and literature which animated his generation, and the fog of death and deathly stupidity that moved...
...implication of the book itself: that the pre-1914 ideals of scientific truth and romantic honor, handed on to David in his father's good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show off his Greek), but his grasp of real experience is weaker...
Romatic's Return MARS IN THE HOUSE OF DEATH- Rex Ingram-Knopf...
Last week he popped up again with a novel, Mars in the House of Death, and an account of where he has been all this time. He quit Hollywood because: 1) doctors told him the pace would kill him shortly, 2) he felt he was getting in a rut. Well-heeled (he got about $125,000 a picture, plus 25% of profits), he bought Ciné studios in Nice, decided to travel. Until two years ago, when he settled in Mexico, he had lived in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Spain, Egypt, learned Arabic, got 20 pieces of his own sculpture...
...Hollywood, determined not to go back until he finds a story "I know, understand, believe in." His own novel is out of the question, he declares: the censors would make mincemeat of it. Evidently influenced by Hemingway (Rex Ingram's favorite author), Mars in the House of Death traces the short life of a famed bullfighter named Chuchito, illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a gypsy dancer, who grows up among Andalusian fighting bulls and Barcelona harlots, falls in love (innocently) with his half-sister while having a passionate affair with the U. S. wife of a Mexican...