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...TROUBLE WITH TIGERS - William Saroyan-Harcourt, Brace...
...fourth collection of short stories in two years, The Trouble With Tigers, continues William Saroyan's noisy demand to be taken seriously. As he states it: "I am studying timeless and contemporary idiocy in man and in myself, and timeless and contemporary poise and dignity in beasts. plants, rocks, rivers, seas, and myself, and I am translating the universe, time and space, pneumatics, size, relativity, sleep, anger, despair, energy, motion, sound, texture, memory, and many other things into English...
...Saroyan's cute childhood, his poverty, his poignant memory of every hamburger he ever ate, his nutty relatives-the subjects of most of his previous stories-are the subjects of about half of the 35 stories in The Trouble With Tigers. The other half-exhibiting Saroyan's fiercest inhaling and exhaling to date-consists of stories about Hollywood and essays on the contemporary idiocy of Man in general. Besides working last year as a cinema writer, Saroyan evidently studied up on Dostoyevsky and Whitman...
With her scrambling of familiar word groupings to break down associated ideas in the reader's mind, making a complete denial of the usual meaning, Gertrude Stein contributes intangibly in her "play" on Daniel Webster. Saroyan's "The Pool Game" proves that he can create an objective tableau which has artistic form. "Letters to Christopher," by Mcrle Hoyleman, are strangely captivating. Perhaps the best writing is found in Delmore Schwartz's two stories, of which "The Commencement Day Address" is admirable for its moral as well as verbal edge...
...Stein and Cummings appear to go too far in the bypath of experimental writing, Saroyan and Schwartz advance exactly far enough. Granted that the fight against the decay of language must be positive and militant, the leaders of semantics should realize that their experimental writing cannot be absurd or incomprehensible to that sector of society against whom their offensive must be strongest: to the mass...