Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Early American Novel, Charles Brockden Brown," Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...Significance. The author has chosen a most unlikely plot for his novel and accomplished a truly rare job. It is an important piece of literature, imaginative, logical, incisive, poetry translated to prose, conceivably executed by a Joyce gone sane. Dundee was simply a less-than-average sort of fellow who wished for more-than-average success; the stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity...
...writer of special articles, he traveled extensively through the Far East, contributing to the Chinese and Japanese press. Married, he lives in Manhattan. Two years ago he published The Grace of Lambs, a collection of short stories which was widely acclaimed. Juggler's Kiss is his first full-length novel...
...living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." The delicacies of Author Wilder's prose cannot be intimated in so rude a summary of the material of his book, which will be acceptable, like his first novel The Cabala, mainly to those who are sophisticates in both life and letters...
Although this production is worth seeing, a doubt cannot but arise whether Ibsen justifies the effect which his plays require. For, after all, the dramatisation of what would have made an excellent novel is bound to be disappointing...