Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...STOIC (310 pp.)-Theodore Dreiser-Doubleday...
...writing will reach Soviet readers in small, carefully measured doses this year. Considered safe for reprinting are the works of Washington Irving, O. Henry, Jack London and Communist Theodore Dreiser...
...newcomer, displayed a good talent for putting over a humorous song; she would go far if only she could muster enough volume for the gallery seats. Further time was killed in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to portray "The American Tragedy" via the R-H (Rodgers and Hammerstein) formula. Dreiser is already dead, but his estate might find grounds for some sort of lawsuit here...
This collection of 14 of his short stories, published less than two years after his death, provides high-caliber ammunition for Dreiser's detractors. The homely virtues are still here: the worried kindliness with which he awkwardly embraces his characters, the groping for the why of inhuman behavior. Typical tales...
...Dreiser's brooding and bewilderment led him into the Communist Party at 73, a year before he died. (This present collection is edited by Novelist Howard Fast, one of the editors of the Communist New Masses.) In his writing Dreiser's bewilderment led him into confused and confusing passages like the following (from The Old Neighborhood...