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When the Mountain Fell, a tale of utter simplicity and symbolic depth by the late Swiss Novelist Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, reminded some readers and writers of the value of perfected style. So did The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster, England's dean of novelists...
Novelist Woodruff, whose real name is Philip Mason, worked as a civil servant in India for 20 years, ending up as Joint Secretary of the Defense Department from 1944 to this year. E. M. Forster's Passage to India (1924), a novel in which certain types of British officials were treated with an irony amounting to loathing, has evidently been on his mind. He writes, in his foreword: "Perhaps I have been lucky in the people I have known and the visitors who write books after a six months' stay have been unlucky." This mild slap...
...Forster, a profound, canny and better novelist, might be rash ; it would be rasher had not Woodruff written a fairly good novel himself...
...characters Trilling writes of may seem almost incredibly old-hat to some readers. But Trilling describes them authentically. He writes beautifully about children and sometimes with gently dazzling insight about their elders. Readers may take pleasure in watching him, at the top of his bent, rival E. M. Forster in the manipulation of surprise and anticlimax...
...Critic Trilling, author of neat books about Forster and Matthew Arnold, is not yet a finished novelist. He mishandles the Dostoevskian character of Maxim. A good deal of the book frays out in thin, earnest psychologizing, a weakness which Trilling's clear grey style has not enough impetus to overcome...