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9. The Fanatic, Levin
Not only controversy but new evidence about Hitler has developed in the dozen years since Bullock's biography first appeared. The record of the Fiihrer's wartime table talk-his ad-lib sermonizings noted down by awed subordinates-proves again that his convictions had altered not one fanatic...
In his introduction to The Fanatic, Meyer Levin explains carefully that this is not a book about real people, as Compulsion was. Instead, he announces, this novel is concerned with "the consuming of human identity that has so racked our generation; the basic problem for the artist . . . of retaining his...
Unfortunately, The Fanatic considers none of these things. It never rises above a case study, the personal history of Maury Finklestein, a pushed and pushy young man trying to sell a play. The trials of Levin's hero lack a broader meaning, a significance beyond themselves. And, unforgivably, the experiences...
The actual themes that emerge from the book--the blatant commercialism of Broadway, the struggles of the unknown author--are not new. They are not freshly handled. And the hero, finally, is paranoiac. It is difficult to be sympathetic toward his talent when his naivete, his obnoxiousness, and his persecution...