Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York customs officials admitted, under a special collectors' provision of the 1930 Tariff Act, one copy of James Joyce's famed stream-of-consciousness novel Ulysses. Banned since its Paris publication in 1922, many a bootlegged Ulysses has been sold in the U. S. for $15 to $50. Its admission was preliminary to a suit by which Bennett Cerf hopes to legalize its U. S. publication...
Latest addition to the ranks of U. S. tetralogy-writers is Author Vardis Fisher. He will not be the least. The first volume of his projected four shows enough of his hand to indicate that he will have to be reckoned with. In Tragic Life is not his first novel nor is this its first edition: it was published early this year by Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho. Readers whose stomachs cannot stand strong meat had better not dip in here, but for those who can, its morbidly realistic sauce will not conceal its true tragic flavor...
...Japan since 1022. When British Scholar Arthur David Waley brought out the first volume of his translation (1925), critics tumbled over themselves to get within wreath-throwing distance. The Tale of Genji was compared to Proust, Jane Austen. Boccaccio. Shakespeare. Its translator calls it "by far the greatest novel of the East and one which, even if compared with the fiction of Europe, takes its place as one of the dozen masterpieces of the world." With The Bridge of Dreams, the sixth volume, The Tale of Genji is complete...
Anthony Adverse is a three-decker, picaresque-historical novel, crammed with enough people, action, scenery, philosophy, comedy, bloodshed, love and death to furnish a dozen books. Built to an old-fashioned design but modern specifications, it starts off like a Waverley Novel, soon gets beyond the purport of its traditional beginning. Like Tristram Shandy's, its hero makes a belated appearance, but when he does his fortunes hold the unwieldy tale together. In following him, however, the story loses track of some promising minor characters whose disappearance is disappointing, whose reappearance is sometimes anticlimactic. From France to Italy...
Religious Experience. Dr. Barnes says he has felt moments of mystical exaltation. He believes religion should include emotion, though in moderation: "The novel entitled Elmer Gantry was written with the exaggeration born of desire to expose an evil; but I fear that in the religious life of America there does exist a misuse, such as its author describes, of emotion which ought to be held sacred." Dr. Barnes deplores the loss of enthusiasm for conversion in British churches. Unless they recapture it they will die. "Churches die of respectability just as they become a nuisance through superstition. Conversion takes...