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...born, that of Huysmans and Wilde and Anatole France, a world in which avarice and hatred have been more obvious than usual, a world tired and emasculated, "decadent." Against this he has struggled, like a "Titan," as the jacket puts it. Probably he felt much freer in writing "Mein Weg als Deutcher und Jude." This propagandizing and sociologizing mars all his work except the "World's Illusion," for in the three years to come the critical stage will no longer be the same critical stage...
...American Tragedy"--what a book what a needlessly long tour-de-force. And we don't mean maybe! Mr. Dreiser, laborious hind of realism, was disgusted by the sickly romantic breed of best sellers. "Mein Gott!" he belched. (This was way back before Prohibition.) "I shall write a book--oh, such a book." He has. It gripes the romanticists, it wearies the amoral. Mr. Dreiser has forgotten nothing; he has taken a "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable" hero (the big gun, Willie Shakspere spouted all those adjectives) and put him through hours and hours of representative paces...
...being introduced to Charles, there appears in the margin this comment: 'O Lord, how do you say this?" And on page 115, where Charles and Anna say they are not looking for anything but aren't you looking for something? the margin is illuminated by this note: "O mein Gott, wie sagt man dieses...
Very few people of prominence have left as much information about themselves as Richard Wagner. Far from any display of reticence, he positively hurls his private life into the teeth of posterity, notably in the voluminous autobiography Mein Leben. So Mr. Newman feels at liberty to peer without shame into dubious corners of the Master's life. It might be supposed that, with an autobiography whose avowed intent was "unadorned veracity," the private life of the composer would not be a hard matter to probe. Unhappily, Mr. Newman finds that, far from being a frank revelation, Mein Leben falls just...
Henry Hull and Robert Strange sputter through the action as the losing lovers. They bandy back and forth the old humors of jealousy?fighting beneath the outward mein of repression in the presence of their mistress. They are both insufferable egotists, and the author derives much laughter from their self-approbation...