Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadway's Judith Anderson, hair-raising star of Medea (adapter: Robinson Jeffers), responded to a request by the Saturday Review of Literature for a list of her current reading. Besides the collected poems of Robinson Jeffers, Actress Anderson, who plays eight hard shows a week, listed one current novel, a couple of biographies, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, the collected works of Charles Dickens, the collected works of William Shakespeare, James Joyce's Ulysses, the Bible...
...author of this first novel is only 23, but his literary promise has already caused a flutter in Manhattan publishing circles. When Editor Cyril Connolly of England's highbrow Horizon visited the U.S. last year (TIME, Oct. 20), he noted with sad alarm...
Disillusion. The Patchwork Time is Robert Gibbons' second novel. (First was Bright Is the Morning.) Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1915, he began to write at 18, served during the war aboard an LST in the Pacific. His work is widely praised by such Southerners as Robert Penn Warren, Erskine Caldwell and Eudora Welty, seems typical of a growing school of graceless disillusionment in fiction, too accomplished not to be taken seriously, and too narrow not to be viewed with alarm by readers who respect its talents and potential contribution...
...that what has been left out is more important and dramatic to smalltown life than what the novel contains-that the daily routines of the teaching of history or a job with the light company are more interesting than the talks in the barroom; that the religious faith of the community has an elevation more significant than is expressed in its condemnation of sexual misdoings; that the tormented love affairs reveal a groping tenderness deeper than the bitter words that attend their endings; and finally, that the whole texture of life, the routines of going to work and to school...
...novel drives this despondent dogma home with such fierce insistence that readers may need a few minutes' reflection to shake off its spell. But in the end, it will be seen that Green has trapped both Kaspan and Meddow in equally futile obsessions with absolutist quests-the one for absolute freedom and the other for absolute love...