Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following his novel of the same name Playwright Pascal proved why a wife should not divorce a husband who has been unfaithful. He placed his characters in the suburbs, brought the husband's woman out to see them, had a thorough, earnest airing of the family dirty linen. Mr. Pascal does not try "to be funny about divorce, nor is he tragic. He is honest rather than brilliantly original...
...Immoral students who study the conquest of Providence flappers more closely than the conquests of Macedonian Alexander; football rally stickers pasted on certain parts of Brown's ill-proportioned equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius; intoxicating liquors, which Parson Faunce refuses to believe his young gentlemen drink; sexy modern novels, instanced by the case of English Instructor Percy ("Plastic Age") Marks who was asked to resign when his college novel reached Parson Faunce's sedate office. Percy Marks complied...
That is the work of an author, new and young,?Morley Callaghan of Canada. The house of Chas. Scribners Sons, alert for potential Ernest Hemingways, has given him a robust sendoff, published several of his short stories and the above-quoted novel...
That is the end of "the chronicle of a woman's life," the first full length novel which famed Austrian Arthur Schnitzler has written for 20 years. The book moves slowly with the pace of life in language that is bare and beautiful. Author Schnitzler does not blame Theresa for her tragedy, nor does he blame the circumstances which compel it. He merely understands that these things are a part of life, and writes about them seriously and gently...
Knut Hamsun, as everyone knows, won the Nobel Prize for 1920 with his novel The Growth of the Soil. Peder Johannesen, farmer of Krakmo, Norway, never won any prizes. He was simply an ingenious and diligent hayseed who installed turbines and other complex apparatus by himself, who inspired a great novelist with the dignity of certain agricultural artisans. Novelist Hamsun derived Isak, the hero of his prize novel, from Peder. Peder died last week...