Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN - Bright realism applied to a Southern evangelist who tries to shuffle his way into heaven with the methods of the cinema villain...
...more than once or twice during its 200-odd pages comes so close to the ridiculous as to border on the sublime. After all, Carley is a paranoic?whether or not he is an intellectual Christ. But for all that, it is an original, vivid novel. In detail, its realism fails occasionally? especially in dialogue?but the total effect of its realism is good. It is not to be recommended to the Victorian-minded. Its subject, honestly treated, precludes that...
HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN?Realism taken to the heart of the Kentucky mountains, where a hypercritical religious exhorter seeks to wash out his rival's sins by turning a dam loose...
...that someone else may come along and remedy it, is, I think, laudable. However in the zeal for reality one must remember that even Truth has its place. One has only to read Swift's poem on a lady's dressing room to appreciate the extreme to which realism may be carried. Desirability will always remain a paramount condition. Our bad side is incidental and our faith in college should be great...
...world of literature, as in the world of athletics, "youth will be served." F. Scott Fitzgerald, not long out of college, has achieved a reputation for collegiate realism. Stephen Benet has made a name himself by his somewhat sensational writing. Mr. Cozzens is now publishing his first novel...