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...Laughlin considers of lasting value. Rimbaud, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and Andre Gide are among the names included or planned for inclusion. A third series, The Makers of Modern Literature, is composed of what Laughlin terms "critical guidebooks" to the great modern authors--Joyce, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Kafka, Lorca, Baudelaire, and a list of on display some of the products of New Directions Books from the years of its infancy to its present flourishing state. Books, pamphlets, letters from the authors, and pictures are combined to create a rather interesting survey of a little known phase of modern...
...mythical "Edward and Helen Kafka," seeking to be recognized as "lawful issue" in the will of their father, present problems in jurisdiction for divorce and the conflict of laws to be debated by Austin Broadhurst and Norman L. Gill of the Powell Club against George E. Hill and Edward C. Freutel, Jr. of the Edward Warren Club...
...first number Twice A Year published 34 pages of moderately pithy pontification by Alfred Stieglitz; a gustier and guttier five-page blast on aesthetics by e. e. cummings; some subtle war-time letters (1914-19) of the great German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke; excerpts from Andre Malraux and Franz Kafka among others; the studied, furious oration in which individualist Henry David Thoreau in 1859 defended individualist John Brown. Its "Civil Liberties Section" contained Roger Baldwin's On Being a Conscientious Objector (1918-1913)-plus the judge's decision that in 1918 sent Baldwin to jail...
...Ethel Vance" is a pseudonym for someone whom the publishers say they have good reason not to name. The book might be the product of an impossible collaboration by Kay Boyle, Christopher Isherwood, Dorothy Sayers, Franz Kafka and Alfred Hitchcock. Its atmospheric detail and steadily elaborated suspense are better than most Hitchcock. Book-of-the-Month Clubbers, who get Escape for October, will not willingly lay it down...
...sailor and lumberjack. Aksel Sandemose is a 39-year-old Danish novelist who has been acclaimed and anathematized in much the same terms as James Joyce, Celine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka. Like them, he follows a realism that is epic and allegorical rather than photographic. Two years ago Sandemose was introduced to U. S. readers with a powerful, puzzling story called A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks. Acknowledging Sandemose's originality, critics called him less original than Joyce, less obscure than Kafka and Rilke, less cynical than Celine...