Word: jew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Darkness. Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey was a thoughtful but disappointing study of New York liberal intellectuals. Saul Bellow's The Victim, for the most part a well-controlled blend of realism and parable, was the year's most intelligent study of the Jew in U.S. society. Bellow's method recalled-without aping-that of the Czech genius, Franz Kafka...
...three million Germans who were in CRS before the war and during the occupation were moved bodily back to Germany. Before the war the Germans here enjoyed national privileges. They had their own schools and churches and spoke their own language, (Kafta was one of them, but also a Jew.) The hatred is so great that German signs at international railroad cars have been painted over, German (which all the Czechs, speak) is never spoken, and even German music is not played...
...surface, this is a competent little story about a solemn and touchy Jew accused by a fantastic Gentile of having ruined him. But, until a disastrously out-of-key final chapter, it has troubling depths of meaning which make it unusual among new novels...
Predictable Ruts. Significantly, the best of Spearhead's younger writers are turning away from technical experiments. In John Berryman's fine story, The Imaginary Jew, in Delmore Schwartz's poetic probing of the Oedipus complex ("the child must carry his fathers on his back"), and in Randall Jarrell's savage war poetry, verbal high jinks are replaced by untortured statement and controlled emotion...
...screenplay follows the novel closely. Gregory Peck is assigned by a magazine to write a series of articles on antiSemitism. To gather material, he decides to pretend to be a Jew for a few months. In a few weeks he suffers shocks that crack up his love affair, and, almost, his personality. But all ends well with him-if not with the world...