Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caravan usually has something very good in it: this time it is a long poem by Phelps Putnam, The Daughters of the Sun, too long to quote, too good to quote from. Of the newcomers, William Rollins Jr.'s short novel, The Obelisk, is a painfully accurate account of adolescence's nightmares. Erskine Caldwell's Midsummer Passion is a Chekhovian incident of yokel bawdiness and embarrassment, e. e. cummings, noted licentiate of verse, has some fun with prose and prose ideas. Paul Green contributes a full-length play, Tread the Green Grass. There are eleven short stories...
...Novel in Woodcuts- Lynd Ward-Cape & Smith...
...Novel-readers, relapsing despairingly to the cinema, relapsing disgustedly to novels again, may have wished sometimes for a novel without words, a cinema without moving pictures. Here...
...series of 138 woodcuts, of which every picture helps to tell the story, the allegory of an artist's life is unfolded. The pictures are obvious enough, and placed in such obvious sequence that even a novel-browser may read both tale and fable aright. The artist comes to a strange land, gets into difficulties from which he is rescued by a mysterious masked figure. End of Part I. The artist comes to a city, paints pictures, is taken up by a patron, lionized, supplied with a mistress. End of Part II. He is happy with her until...
Author-Artist Lynd Ward has woodcut an effective book. His pictures may not please artists, but they will hold the novel-reader, eager for a story. In parts the treatment is strongly reminiscent of German cinema-e.g.. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. But the book is a tour de force; novelists will have little competition from such "novels...