Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Darkness at Noon ($2), Arthur Koestler's coldly incandescent novel about the ultimate moral dilemma of Russian purgers and purged...
There is another sort of birth, from year to year: the rebirth of a great name, or the slow filtering of a great mind into a new age or country. The year's best-publicized resurgence was that of John Donne, thanks to Ernest Hemingway's last novel. Less flukily the Oxford and Princeton presses between them brought out five volumes by Soren Kierkegaard, perhaps the least-known great mind of the 19th Century. The work of such minds enters the world silently, late, without ingratiation; but it helps restore the very values upon which human life...
Year of the Clown. From all the appalling bulk of printed paper, only two books-Koestler's novel and Auden's poem -made a dead-center philosophical attack on the real problems of 1941. But sometimes the philosophies have not the last word. One writer who is less pretentiously touched with genius than any of them is Ludwig Bemelmans. His Ecuadorian travelogue, The Donkey Inside ($3), was the most delightful book of a far from delightful year. This month he published his even better-written Hotel Splendide ($2.50), a collection of waiters' eye-views of life...
Informally discussing the impact of urban centralization upon the American novel since the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War, John C. Goodbody, graduate student in American Civilization, explained Wednesday evening to members of the American Civilization Group how novelists after 1860 have treated the comparatively new and perplexing problem of the growth of the modern city...
...August 1939, Koestler was also living in the south of France and working on his brilliant novel about the Russian blood purges, Darkness at Noon. He had never loved France quite so much as then, never been so "achingly conscious of its sweetness and decay." He was a young (36), Budapest-born journalist, a Gentile, a man of political action. He had been a trenchantly pro-Loyalist newspaper correspondent in Spain, where Franco forces had caught him and led him through the streets of Malaga in chains. He had been a member of the Communist party for seven years...