Word: novelâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...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...
...continual laying of bets as to which way that nervous and feline creature, Popular Taste, is going to jump. And, generally, it jumps the other way. For the average novel hardly recoups its publisher for his initial expenses?if that. Or so they tell the author. But the exceptional novel???Gosh, how the money rolls...
Berlin again?utter poverty?furious labor, this time on a novel???failure once more?an attempt as a tutor ? as an actor ? as a tutor again, and this time an interval of peace, of what was almost luxury, as the protege of a rich banker. Then a deliberate return to the slums?the impulse to write?to probe into odd corners of life too strong to be denied. At last the edge of the precipice?no reasonable future in sight?abruptly followed by what proved salvation?the offered editorship of a new political weekly. The book ends there...