Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sees history repeating itself, intervenes. As the two ancient rivals match wits, the home passes through a financial crisis, a strike against short rations led by wrinkled, wry Cabris-sade (Michel Simon), who spent a lifetime in the theatre understudying healthy actors. Typical shot: St. Clair, ensconced with a novel in the bathtub while his fellow inmates are clamoring at the door, magnanimously promising to leave after he has finished another chapter...
Though he has neither Lardner's indescribable humor nor Hemingway's Paris-found sense of style, John O'Hara ranks with them as a first-class, far from phoney reporter. Appointment in Samarra, his first and best novel, was good enough and true enough to make anything he wrote thereafter worth reading. Probably most worth reading are his acid short stories...
...warlike mood, bluntly maintained that "the liberty and freedom we obtained from fighting the British we will now have to fight with them to retain. . . . Isolation is, for us, the destruction of civilization." Author Remarque, whose All Quiet on the Western Front was the most famed novel about World War I, had little to say about World War II. Although he lost his German citizenship last year, has no country, and travels on a Swiss identification card, he had nothing but sympathy for the German people. "Poor Germany," he moaned. "I cannot fight against...
...autobiographical first novel of a Russian ex-revolutionist and army officer who escaped to the U. S. in 1924, They That Take the Sword is a simply-told, convincing, first-person marathon (717 pages). It traces the career of an idealistic, dynamic, personable young Siberian peasant who ran away at 16 to become a "Russian Lincoln." He became leader of a terrorist group, was exiled to Siberia, rose to a captaincy during the War, commanded both Red and White troops in the civil war, narrowly escaped "liquidation" when he grew disgusted with both sides...
They That Take the Sword not only has a good chance of success because of new interest in 20th-Century Russian history, but also stands out as a good novel in its own right. It tells its bloody epic through plausible human (and inhuman) characters. Its hero, Sergei Kuskov, is human in his contradictions. He coolly plans the assassination of Tsarist generals and police, but is tormented by puritanical scruples in his love affairs. A deadly foe of Tsarism, he nevertheless wins a medal for his zeal as a railroad construction boss, becomes a patriot in the War, gets...