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...Harry Levin's study attempts both to place Joyce in proper relation to his literary progenitors and progeny, and to integrate his three major works and various minor productions into a consistent whole. A brief acquaintance with Joyce should convince one of the difficulty of the task, while even a briefer perusal of Levin should demonstrate his success at achieving it. This is not to suggest, however, that the book is not worth a careful reading, for a tightly-written style compresses a multitude of ideas into its relatively small compass. Expansion might make easier comprehension for the layman...
...Levin maintains that Joyce stands midway between naturalism, and symbolism, and that from this key position arises his significance. By conscientious scholarship, he demonstrates that Joyce's contribution is in development rather than in innovation. The stream of consciousness technique was not original with Joyce but he became perhaps its greater master. His universal knowledge, with which only someone of Levin's stature could cope, enable him to sum up within himself all the threads of his literary past, and his genius succeeded in spinning a web for the future, though the reader may be led astray along...
...organizations concerned, while Joseph Lash edits a column of ISS Notes. Also of fundamental interest of students is the description of the "New Deal for C.O.'s" which tells of the fine work done by the Quakers and others in setting up work camps for religious pacifists. Finally, Mike Levin's article on the high-pressure tactics of orchestra booking-agents should be of distinct value to anyone responsible for college dances, while his suggestion of a centralized board to handle orchestra booking for the colleges should, if feasible, provide an excellent method for future economics in finance and effort...
...include to boot a short history of Jazz, which seems to have been compressed from "Jazzmen," which appeared a couple of years ago. Obviously an ambitions book like this cries out for more attention than this little squib can give, and it will get it next week. . . . Mike Levin, who started this column three scaut years ago, is busy as ever around New York, what with a new feature in "Orchestra World" and a labor of love helping Red Norvo under way with his new band. . . . Harry James and his band did not impress me too favorably at the Metropolitan...
...every great city of the earth, and the shelters are crowded, and a civilization, if it is ending, is no less surely germinal. In one great warning work of literature after another, meanwhile, a similar mental cavern is retreated to and explored (Joyce's was a Dedalean Labyrinth). Levin quotes St. John's "Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone, but if it die, it beareth much fruit." That, says he, is "the burden of the manifold texts of Finnegans Wake," and of Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Zola, Gide, Eliot...