Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hara is rapidly qualifying himself for hard-boiled champion of the year. As straight a reporter of U. S. dialect as the late great Ring Lardner and straighter than Hemingway, he writes without bitterness, without pity. The effect is unpleasant but cruelly true to U. S. life. His first novel, Appointment in Samarra (TIME, Aug. 20), offended many a reader, excited many a critic. This collection of sketches and short stories will raise the same echo...
OLLIE Miss - George Henderson - Stokes ($2.50). All-Negro novel, well and simply told...
SEASON TICKET-Margaret lies-Harper ($2). Competent but uninspiring first novel about English season-ticket-holders (U. S.: commuters...
...there any reason that a course in the Russian novel should be less valuable for this purpose than one in the English novel? Are the Classics to be excluded completely as a broadening, literary influence for all those who do not know the ancient languages? As a broad cultural background, certainly there are many fields in translation which, especially to those whose interests tend there, will be far more enjoyable than the present alternative for most,--a course in English literature, or an elementary literary course in either French or German...
...BLACK CONSUL - Anatolu Vinogradov- Viking ($2.75). In this historical novel of Haiti and the French Revolution by a Soviet author, Toussaint l'Ouverture. Robespierre, Marat, Lafayette and other great men of the epoch take the stage. Vinogradov's method of fictionalizing history is to incorporate verbatim reports taken from original sources into his stories. Thus the unsuspecting reader is treated to actual state papers, speeches, documents. Vinogradov may have been the first historical novelist to make extensive use of this method, but Guy Endore. U. S. novelist, employed the same technique in Babouk, his novel of a West...