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...NOTE ON LITERARY CRITICISM-James T. Farrell-Vanguard ($2.50). The creator of Studs Lonigan berates the reigning Leftist critics for their failure to acknowledge the "refreshment-value" of literature, insists that criticism must be "rationally established," not "absolutized and fixed...
Only a pale pink is Novelist James Timothy Farrell, who, like his hero "Studs" Lonigan (Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day), began in Chicago a generation ago as the frilled darling of an Irish family, grew up to be wonderfully rough & tough. Progressively ruddier are Novelist Josephine Herbst (The Executioner Waits); Playwright Albert Bein (Let Freedom Ring); Critic Granville Hicks ( The Great Tradition), who on his Fellowship will carry past 1890 his revolutionary interpretation of U. S. literature. Ultra Red is satiric Poet Kenneth Fearing, who bitterly wrote of a poor man run down...
JUDGMENT DAY-James T. Farrell- Vanguard ($2.50). Third volume in the hardboiled trilogy of Studs Lonigan...
...YOUNG MANHOOD OF STUDS LONIGAN-James T. Farrell-Vanguard ($2.50). Author Farrell is already a little out of date. Though brutally realistic novels with tough slum heroes will doubtless continue to be written, their day is waning with the reading public. Of their departing kind The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan is a worthy example. The Lonigans were decent Irish Catholics, dwellers in a poor Chicago neighborhood. But they thought of themselves as citizens of no mean city. Young Studs took to his tough environment like an alley-cat to a garbage can-fought, smoked, played football in vacant lots...