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Distaste for the rational, plodding, message-ridden, rhetorical problem novel???which Nabokov has condemned for years?is now widespread. But the objection to the traditional novel is essentially negative, rising as it often does from despair about the possibilities of rational, orderly, middle-class society. Black comedies, happenings, novels without plots are on the whole grim experiments, and the laughter they offer is at best a kind of comic rictus...
...more English novel???in the Kipling, sun-never-sets-on-it sense ? than Peking Picnic would be hard to imagine. Authoress Bridge puts her not always tacit low opinion of all foreigners in a sufficiently high light, repeats with religious fervor the Kipling creed of England über alles. Broad-minded if not exactly up-to-date, the judges of the $10,000 Atlantic Monthly Prize unanimously picked Peking Picnic out of 750 manuscripts submitted for the contest...
...collecting material for his stories. His new novel, to be called Wild Horse Mesa, is about a great mesa which rises above the canyon country of southern Utah. Mr. Grey has made three attempts to climb this piece of land, in order to provide the climax for his novel???each time he has failed. The climax of his novel will be, therefore, this very insurmountability of the mesa...
...muckraking novel???written rather to expose an abuse than to describe actual men and women in fiction?we have always with us. The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) is a good sample of its kind?and good of its kind. But the kind is not lasting. And, in general, our accredited novelists seem to prefer to deal, if not with brokers, artists and young collegians, at least with the Babbitts and sub-Babbitts of the middle class...
...almost incredible performance by an author who has written one superb novel??? and done work that is both interesting and fine in other literary fields?very nearly the most puerile book pretending to deal with America yet written by a visiting European...