Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jonathan Kozol has added another chapter to his saga of mental pathology. Insights and images accumulated while crawling through the sewers of the mind are tied together in a bitter-sweet package of sickness titled "The Ritual." If this sample is typical of the novel from which it is taken, it is hard to see how the full dosage can be made digestible...
...newspaper editor and radio interviewer, Karl Bjarnhof has published seven novels. Stars, which appeared in Denmark in 1956 and has since been translated into six languages, is the sixth. It is a measure of Author Bjarnhof's rigorously won success that he makes his hero's tormented saga exalting without heroics or organ tones-or taking other than a dryly skeptical view of the traditional solace of religion. Taking adversity full face like a biting gust off his native fiords, the young hero of The Stars Grow Pale makes of his long day's journey into night...
...latter days Moses has been psychoanalyzed by Freud (Moses and Monotheism) and has taken his turn at the treaDeMille (The Ten Commandments). Now. ex-Communist Howard Fast, veteran of 14 mostly ideological novels (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road), has turned out what looks like Volume I of a Mosaic saga with overtones of both Freud and DeMille...
...Jigsaw Saga. At last, convinced that he was a phony, the university hospitals' doctors sent Lamphere packing with a bus ticket to Chicago, gave him money out of their own pockets for cab fare to the terminal. He never got there, but stayed drunk in a downtown hotel, was soon back at the hospital, coughing blood and fevered (103°), pleading for readmission. He won it. After a few days he went berserk, terrorized the ward, smashed furniture and equipment, gashed his thigh with scissors. After more such self-inflicted wounds, Lamphere was committed to a mental hospital...
...House of Four Seasons and James Fisher's The Wonderful World of the Sea; the infancy of the human race lies in Ella Young's evocation of Gaelic Ireland, The Wonder Smith and His Son, and in a reissue of Howard Pyle's saga of the German robber barons. Otto of the Silver Hand. A tall tale is found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses...