Word: novel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a lieutenant from Randolph Field, the Army Air Corps training centre in Texas, missed the town at which he was instructed to land on a cross-country flight. He turned up with a novel excuse. Said he: his navigation was so accurate that he passed directly over the town, was so intent on scanning the terrain on both sides of his course that he never noticed...
Herman Stehr, a kind of German Knut Hamsun, writes about peasants. Hans Grimm is the author of a novel whose enormous length (1,300 pages) belies its title: People Without Room. A Nazi classic, it is often contrasted with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, to Mann's disadvantage...
Hans Fallada (Little Man, What Now?), though not a Nazi, is still popular in Germany. But his Iron Gustav has been quietly blacklisted. Joseph Ponten's seven-volume historical novel will trace the emigrations of German minorities abroad, especially in Russia. Edwin Erich Dwinger's The Last Horsemen describes the futile attempt of a gang of German frontier soldiers to invade Courland and make it a German province...
...miserable substitute. Likewise synthetic is her marriage to a rich, cultured Jew. Renouncing his comfortable world, she seeks the true faith in vain in a factory, among the Communists, in an affair with a psychiatrist. Salvation comes when she meets David Markand, hero of Author Frank's last novel and Mary's New-Adam counterpart. Through her love for him, plus a beyond-Communism social faith, she finds new symbols for her long-lost religious faith...
...years ago the American Writers' Congress overwhelmingly voted The Big Money best novel of the year. That was on June 6. Three weeks later, Dos Passos' name was mud with the Marxists. His heresy: an article called Farewell to Europe, damning "the intricate and bloody machinery of Kremlin policy" in Spain, thanking heaven that "the Atlantic is a good wide ocean...