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Besides Joyce, gathered together under one of the most handsome formats to appear in some time are such well known writers as Audre Gide, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kaiks, Erskine Caldwell, William Saroyan, Dylan Thomas and many others. This large selection will not have a widespread appeal, but for those who are interested it is an excellent chronicle of the "transition" literary...
...That Failed, by Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, Andre Gide, Louis Fischer and Stephen Spender. Six dissillusioned men tell why they got into and out of Communism (TIME...
...That Failed, by Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, André Gide, Louis Fischer and Stephen Spender. Six disillusioned men tell why they got into and out of Communism (TIME...
...with the party. In The God that Failed, six of them tell the stories of their Communist pilgrimage, and the return trip. It is as goodly a company of such pilgrims as has yet been collected in one volume: there are Novelists Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, Andre Gide, Journalist Louis Fischer, Poet Stephen Spender, and there is an introduction by British Laborite M.P. Richard Grossman, who thinks that but for his own "nonconformist cussedness" he might have been tempted by Communism himself. The stories the six contributors tell may be read as strange and dreadful Canterbury Tales...
...member for only a few weeks) and Fischer (who never actually joined at all) are clear, but like their authors' experience of the party, not deep; Wright's is appealing for its passionate declaration of one Negro's reasons for trying Communism, though a little boyish; Gide's is a paraphrase of his Return from the U.S.S.R. (1936) and Retouchings of My Return from the U.S.S.R. (1937), perhaps the most famous anti-Communist accounts ever written and among the best, but chiefly of biographical interest now. It is Koestler and Silone, who went deepest into...