Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Whitcomb writes his book in straight U. S. lingo, and the happy result is authentic U. S. reality-as far removed from literary realism as from the dreary violence of yellow journalese. Hero-narrator is one Matt Williams, U. S. bricklayer in his middle 30's; his story, told straight from the side of his mouth, is typical of hundreds of thousands but he tells it so freshly that it does not seem like an old tale. He starts in with a bang that never fades out to a whimper...
DEATH IN 4 LETTERS-Francis Beeding -Harper ($2). A fictionalized "Arms and the Men," with a crack journalist, a lady doctor, a huge red-bearded artist chasing and being chased across the Continent. Bright and fast, with some convincing touches of realism, considerable humor...
Thus Author Erich von Stroheim describes the preliminary grappling that leads to Paprika's fifth seduction. Before she is grudgingly made an honest woman she goes through eight such man-handlings. Modestly blurbed by Publisher Macaulay as a story that "uncovers with the blunt scalpel of realism the sadism inherent in the sexual plexus of a woman's being," Paprika takes the cake on several counts...
...Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion for realism a free rein. Nobody has intervened.'' Many a reader will be grinningly grateful...
...Just as she was about to declare her love to Rogi her insatiable vanity got the better of her. and she married a dashing officer. On her bridal night Rogi cut her husband's throat and carried her off. They were pursued; escape was hopeless; shots cracked. . . . Realism triumphed over Hollywood...