Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recanted, and was suddenly respectable again. His book The Naked God, about his break with the party, found a regular trade publisher and was widely reviewed. His new novel, Moses, Prince of Egypt, was also reviewed, and its publisher was enthusiastic enough to buy a full page in The New York Times Book Review to tell the world about...
This new respectability not only covers Fast's current works, but extends backwards to include the novels written during his card-carrying days. The novel sold to the movies this week is Spartacus, which Fast was forced to publish himself in 1951 because nobody else would. Evidently, then, the silence that boxed him in during the early Fifties was not imposed to eliminate Communist propaganda...
After years in the national doghouse, Howard Fast renounced Communism, and is now thoroughly rehabilitated: this week he sold another novel to the movies, to be made into a $4,000,000 epic of sin, slaughter, and spectacle (not socialism) in ancient Rome. The history of Fast's career provides disturbing evidence of the existence in America of an informal conspiracy, not so much to prevent the dissemination of Communist propaganda, as to prevent Communist artists from making a living...
Zombis in Hipster-land. This bizarre rite, called the "cinnamon caper," is disdained by Author Gutwillig's hero Tom Freeman, but he and his pals indulge in such mellow old youth-novel capers as fornication, abortion, homosexuality and illicit Negro-white love affairs. These goings-on take place at or near an Ivy Leaguish college named Arden that physically resembles Cornell, but the true locale is hipsterland, and the hero's quest for identity is as manic as if he were looking for a hypodermic needle in a haystack. Stylistically, Author Gutwillig tries to evoke Scott Fitzgerald...
Author Bazin, 47, writes sparely or sensuously as the mood of his novel demands. His insights into feminine psychology are acute, and a book that might have succumbed to formula patness moves with a mythic interior logic. Rarely, indeed, has a mere man so well defined the dynamics of the female life drive, in which man is at once a biological necessity and an emotional luxury...