Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...UP?Carolina Mountain life cut with the biting knife of realism...
...short eulogy of Theodore Dreiser. It is not enough to catalogue those tales with the complaisant adjective "realistic" and marvel at the sordidness that is occasionally revealed or the peculiar intimacy of the author with human mental processes and physical passions. Several of them may truthfully be accused of realism; but on the whole they are far from that; when the author sees the worst, which is not seldom, he paints it blacker than actuality could conceivably be; when he looks at the beautiful side of life he becomes entangled in a symbolism and altogether unrealism which is difficult...
...reality three phases of one movement. The interlocking directorates of the three, together with the spiritual identity manifested by an unbroken and unfaltering unison of avowal and of practice, conclusively prove that the interrelationship is not casual or accidental or unimportant. Nothing could well be further removed from political realism than the theory that relations can be had with the Soviet Government wholly without regard to the Bolshevist Party or the Third Internationale...
...Significance. Here is a book about a New York which has already become almost as much of a tradition as the New York of The Age of Innocence. The book is written by one of the pioneers of "realism" in America. Dreiser seeks to do for his city what Dickens did for his in The Uncommercial Traveler and in other sketches. The manners are different-the American attempt not quite so successful, on the whole, as the English one. But nevertheless, The Color of a Great City is crammed with a wealth of odd detail, vivid observation and strange information...
There are a few specimens of the type "realism" in the collection which provoke the question, Is not the thesis of realism, a valuable and truthful thesis in itself, already proved to satiety? Ought not the case to be rested? The virus has been injected into the body politic these many years; are not all purposes of innoculation served? Surely the last pair of rosy spectacles has been dashed from the last contented nose; surely there is left no benighted Victorian who has not learned that "beauty" is a quivering suggestion of sex and neurosis? For there seems...