Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Novelist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) told the American Academy of Arts and Letters that in pessimistic moments he thought that "man's best chance for harmony lies in apathy, uninventiveness and inertia . . . Universal exhaustion would certainly be a new experience. The human race has never undergone it, and it is still too perky to admit that it ... might result in a sprouting of new growth through decay...
...hard for a writer in the Western tradition to understand the atmosphere of Russia," admitted Novelist Thomas Mann, "hard for him to understand a man like Shostakovich kneeling down before the authorities. And yet, after all, in the Middle Ages artists lived under the dogma of the church and felt relatively free. It is possible-is it possible?-for an artist to function within a frame of philosophy .whose limits cannot be transcended ... I don't know...
...find out a good deal more about the panjandrum. A group of scholars, critics and historians had written sketches and tributes for a book about him (Archibald Henderson: The New Crichton, edited by Samuel Stevens Hood; Beechhurst Press; $5). Among the contributors were the late Historian Charles A. Beard, Novelist Betty Smith, and the university's ex-president (now U.S. Senator), Frank Porter Graham. Each took a different phase of the Henderson chronicle...
...other hand, Pierre Schneider's sensitive piece of criticism, "Celine, A Lasting Scream," shows what can be done in a critical vein. Schneider, in his analysis of this novelist's technique, does an excellent job of evaluating the contemporary novel in general, the novel whose author "plucks only the lowest and smoothest cord." He catches and understands the power that Celine's works carry, and acutely dissects the reason's effect of that power on the reader...
...Forbidden Street (20th Century-Fox) is a plushy piece of theatrical fustian spun from Britannia Mews, the bestseller by British Novelist Margery Sharp. Full of fine careless raptures and even more careless improvisations, it tells a story as cluttered with plot as a Victorian interior...