Word: steinbeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MOON IS DOWN-John Steinbeck-Viking...
...forty-five it was all over. The town was occupied, the defenders defeated, and the war finished." With these brisk, matter-of-fact words John Steinbeck begins his brisk, matter-of-fact account of the conquest of a nameless country, resembling Norway, by an invading force, resembling the Nazis. The Moon Is Down is Steinbeck's first important work of fiction since The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and the most resolute and dramatic piece of propaganda that has come out of World...
...John Steinbeck...
...Forgotten Village (John Steinbeck-Herbert Kline documentary of old v. modern medicine in a Mexican village; TIME...
Everywhere Steinbeck finds atavistic hints and murmurs which carry men far back into their brute heritage. When he uses such phrases as "the deep black water of the human spirit" he sounds like D.H. Lawrence, as he does in his subhuman enchantments. Yet Lawrence's animal-love was a negation, a retreat from human modes of thinking and acting; Steinbeck's is an inclusion. Steinbeck also enjoys the syllogisms of philosophers and the constructions of theoretical physicists-it is all right, all part of life...