Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HENRY FOR HUGH-Ford Madox Ford -Lippincott ($2.50). Sequel to The Rash Act; Author Ford considers it "the best piece of work I have yet done." THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF DAVID MARKAND - Waldo Frank - Scribner ($2.75). The latest of Prophet Frank's novels of "mystical realism," this is less interesting as a novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum...
Author Samuel clothes his Odyssean story in rich realism and, on a much less ambitious scale, his picture of masculine Manhattan is reminiscent of Joyce's Dublin. Some of his characters are drawn from life: Manhattanites may recognize the portrait of Alfred Richard Orage, onetime lecturer, now editor of the London New English Weekly, who appears here under the pseudonym of "Storm...
Whether they like it or not, U. S. readers-and especially Midwesterners-will admit that The Folks rings true, has no perceptible alloy in its honest realism. Its cumulative power lies in the fact that it is written straight, with no scintilla of satire or sentimental sympathy. Foreigners might object to the almost total absence of ideas in the book. To them a U. S. reader could reply that the Midwest is the U. S.'s backbone, not its brain...
...that bites Claudette Colbert in this DeMille production is a real one. Studio officials expressed surprise when the director deviated so far from realism as to permit the extraction of its poison sac before it struck...
...anthracite coal industry at a time when the Depression was called the Slump. In a story of only three days, John O'Hara succeeds in covering as much ground about Gibbsville as Sinclair Lewis did in describing Gopher Prairie (Main Street) in three years. He writes with swift realism, wisely avoids sentimentality...