Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This French novel, economical, quiet and painful in its insights, concerns the old Catholic bourgeois society of France before World War I. The central figure in the story is Brigitte Pian, a woman whose intense religious life is a mask for her pride and will to dominate others. The scruples with which she torments those dependent on her may seem fantastic to casual readers, but they are logical consequences of a false and formal Christianity...
...chief claim to fame has been his recent activity in contesting the Boston censors and the Hearst press. After Lillian Smith's novel of miscegenation, "Strange Fruit," has been declared obscene literature by the Boston Watch and Ward Society, Isenstadt was approved by Bernard De Voto and members of the Harvard faculty and asked to test the validity of the ruling by selling the book openly in Cambridge. Mr. I, equally enthusiastic about constitutional rights and publicity, gave Cambridge Police Chief Leahy advance notice and was rewarded with a court summons the next morning when he handed Author De Voto...
...hypocrite alive" for his chain's campaign against so-called smutty literature, in view of the sexsational stories and headlines featured by his papers. Isenstadt believes that the next target of Mr. Hearst and the censors will be Charles Jackson's study of homosexuality, "The Fall of Valor." The novel is prominently displayed in the ULBE and will so continue, says Mr. I, despite Hearst's "nasty campaign...
...good" is corrupted by lust for power. Critics of Warren have pointed out the close parallels between the careers of Willie Stark and Huey Long and have claimed that Warren has exalted Long by his treatment of Stark's character. This criticism is beside the point. The novel in no-wise constitutes an apologia for Long or for the South and to say that it does is to ignore the meta-physical side of Warren's thought. For despite the novel's immersion in a vast welter of detail about Southern life, "All The King's men" is fundamentally...
Warren has taken the text for his lesson from Dante's "Purgatorio." Man is not lost "so long as hope retaineth aught of green." Warren's selection of this particular line to serve as epigraph for his novel furnishes the key to the evolvement of his thought across the past few years. All of Warren's work has been informed with an acute and very private sense of Doom. But in his maturer poems, and now in "All The King's Men," Warren has translated this vision of Evil into one of religious affirmation. Willie Stark is corrupted and dies...