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...TIMES 3-William Saroyan-Conference Press ($2.50). Nine "stories," each "explained" in an introductory note, by the daring young man who was the U. S. literary trapeze sensation of 1934. Author Saroyan is "delighted to announce that this book is not worth two dollars and fifty cents. An autographed copy of this book is not worth two dollars. ..." Readers whom Saroyan does not make mad will find 3 Times 3 worth reading...
...name of Mr. Laughlin (recurring no less than eight times in the comparatively brief review); (2) the clever word-melanges (so characteristic of Mr. Laughlin's "Looking Across at the Silveratta,"); the note of self-satisfaction, brought jarringly to the fore in the paragraph captioned "Laughlin-Wolfe-Saroyan" (in order of importance...
Like Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River), Saroyan writes about himself, but in a more Whitmanesque vein: he is large, he contains multitudes. Touted as a short-story writer, mostly because his "stones" are written in prose, he seldom sets down a formal narrative. Most of his "stories" are poetic shouts-no less lyrical for being written in street-language with many a cuss word-swelling the chorus of a "Song of Myself." It might almost have been Saroyan who wrote...
Subjects of the 71 pieces in Inhale & Exhale range from the reminiscences of a (Saroyan) schoolboy to speculative statements on the (Saroyan) universe. But whether the scene is barbershop, vaudeville, honkytonk, back street or California valley, Saroyan's brooding eye sees more in it than would meet an ordinary fact-finding glance. He sits through a custard-pie cinecomedy "but God Al mighty it didn't seem funny to me and I sat in the darkness trying to laugh, but I kept thinking, 'Why are they wasting everything, why are they making all these mistakes...
Caring nothing for art ("to hell with art"), everything for Life ("No one is reading the story of life, and no one is writing it"), Saroyan finds himself in the dilemma of every serious writer: how to say what he means without getting tangled in the means of saying it. His second book shows that he still has something to say but is not yet sure of how to say it. Inhale & Exhale announces his creed but does not propagate his gospel...