Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stressing the novelist's responsibility to himself and to the expression of his own views, eight members of the University debated the role of the writer of fiction at the Dunster House Forum last night...
Moderator C. Crane Brinton, associate professor of History, led the group in a discussion of the Novelist's social responsibility, a discussion whose interest was enhanced by the universal recognition of the contemporary threat to the artist's freedom...
Clarence Lee, teaching fellow in English, and himself a novelist, voiced the dominant note of the evening's proceedings when he stated that the freedom of the author to write, independently, of life as he sees it should be paramount to social commentary or patriotic propaganda. This point of view was strengthened by Robert Davis's autobiographical criticisms of the limiting effect of the twentieth century Marxian criticism, which held all literature up to a specialized social theory...
Contemporary significance was added by the remarks by Adam Yarmolinsky '43, who pointed out the difficulties facing the novelist in a time of total war. Not only is he faced by the threat of censorship and the shortage of printing material, but he must also find it impossible to view his topic with the impartiality necessary for valid literary effort...
Died. Stefan Zweig, 60, Austrian-born novelist, biographer, essayist (Amok, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Marie Antoinette), and his wife, Elizabeth; by poison; in Petropolis, Brazil. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, Zweig turned from casual globe-trotting to literature after World War I, wrote prolifically, smoothly, successfully in many forms. His books banned by the Nazis, he fled to Britain in 1938 with the arrival of German troops, became a British subject in 1940, moved to the U.S. the same year, to Brazil the next. He was never outspoken against Naziism, believed artists and writers should be independent...