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...Denis Fodor's short story, "The Fall of Barkutzan," is clearly the best piece of writing in the lot, and perhaps the best story the Advocate has published all year. Fodor manages to contrast effectively the earthy playfulness of a carnival crowd in a little Czechoslovakian village with the ominous arrival of the news of the Gottwald coup...
...Webster's article does give the April Advocate an interestingly medieval touch and is in agreeable contrast to the simplicity of Fodor's story and the topicality of the "arguments" over the Clubs. It is just this contrast and variety that the Advocate is evidently trying to foster. The editors should endeavor in the future to add depth of thought and clarity as well...
...fiction pieces in the issue, "The Gooks" seemed a better job than Dennis Fodor's dialogue story. The former is a fine study of its three soldier principals, with restrained dialogue and subtle development; the latter is too glib, too flashy in dialogue without the insights and basings necessary for a competent story. This comparison is not intentional nor malicious, but successive reading of the two stories brings out rather sharply that what is good in one is the chief failing of the other...
...three stories in the issue, the best is definitely Denis Fodor's "Herr Zipfl's Revolt," a tale of the Bemelmans type but infinitely less genial: Herr Zipfl is the Burgermeister of a Russian-controlled Austrian town. Behind a mask of craven geniality, he is rather resentful of the fact that the Russian military is more interested (justifiably, I think) in his dog, than in him. The plot, the ideas, and the characters of "Herr Zipfl's Revolt" emerge quite naturally and aimply from the relentless simplicity of Mr. Fodor's style...
...true of George Bluestone's "The Funeral." Here we have a deal of skimble-skamble stuff poured out with absolutely no result. The simplest thing to be said about its author is that he has no talent. The contrast between the two stories is the contrast between Mr. Fodor's realism and Mr. Bluestone's realisticness. Thus in the latter we have an endless cast of characters who speak in a hodgepodge of scrupulously correct and scrupulously incorrect English which is characterized as "Jewish." These characters collect together at the funeral of an old lady and make dull remarks...