Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novels of recent years have come into the world with as much intellectual fanfare as Under the Volcano. Poet Stephen Spender calls it "the most interesting novel I have read since Lawrence and Joyce." Critic Alfred Kazin says it "belongs with the most original and creative novels of our time...
Most readers will find it hard to go all the way with such extreme admiration. But they will certainly agree that in its ambitiousness and audacity, Under the Volcano makes the average novel look small and timid. It begins with a simple triangle (two brothers, one woman), around which Author Lowry constructs a huge and complicated interplay of struggle and emotion...
Living Land, Deadened Characters. To deal effectively with these matters would be a task comparable to placing the psychological issues of a novel by Dostoevsky in the time-scheme of a novel by James Joyce. Author Lowry tries to go even further-to make the detailed sufferings of his chief characters fit into equally detailed descriptions of the topography and history of the Mexican setting...
John Steinbeck's new novel moves like the bus, Sweetheart, through a day of heavy spring rains in the Salinas valley country of California. The setting, familiar to Steinbeck readers, comes out fresh and fragrant in Steinbeck's prose. A few of the characters are fragrant too, but his story, a sort of Grand Hotel in a bus, is cunning and cheap. The Book-of-the-Month Club, though making the book its March choice, has warned its readers: "Mr. Steinbeck . . . may write too freely for the taste of some readers, particularly parents who may have teen...
...Wayward Bus, which Steinbeck wrote in 90 days last summer in the air-conditioned Manhattan office of his publisher, is his first book since Cannery Row, his first full-length novel since The Grapes of Wrath...