Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MARA - Stoyan Christowe - Crowell ($2). Story of a youthful Macedonian terrorist in the gory fight against Turkish oppression before 1912; a first novel, done with folktale simplicity, by the author of Heroes and Assassins...
...posing in the nude, was given a check to keep him three months in southern France by John Reed's widow, Louise Bryant. He gave up a job in Rex Ingram's Nice movie studio after chasing a co-worker with a knife, and wrote his sensational novel Home To Harlem. In Morocco, McKay's next stop, he liked everything except the French authorities, who asked him to leave. But even in Africa he was pursued by whites. Negrophile Nancy Cunard wrote to him, asked him to contribute to a Negro anthology, was offended when McKay asked...
Fanny's letters never mention what she really thought of her lover's poetry, though on other literary subjects she is quite frank: "I go on as usual, reading every trumpery novel that comes in my way spoiling my taste and understanding. . . ."-A passage on Byron is almost a giveaway: "Don't you or do you admire Don Juan? perhaps you like the serious parts best but I have been credibly informed that Lord B. is not really a great poet, have taken a sort of dislike to him when serious and only adore...
...Frances Winwar's newest novel, "Gallows Hill", lovers of American history and died-in-the-wool New Englanders will find a new angle of approach to the bloody tradition of the Salem witchcraft persecutions. Aside from the fact that the subject is a familiar one to most of us, the novel is a gripping story displaying in all its emotional actuality the horrors of those ignorant days. The author's faithful adherence to facts which could have been accumulated only by extensive research into the Archives of Salem and Boston brings to the reading public much that is actually biographical...
NIGHTWOOD-Djuna Barnes-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Extremely unusual novel, a poetic parable in terms of Lesbian tragedy. Those who are not frightened off by T. S. Eliot's introduction ("it took me . . . some time to come to an appreciation of its meaning as a whole") probably will be by Author Barnes herself ("I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find...