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...Pearl. John Steinbeck's Mexican fable, overidealized, but sometimes moving and beautiful (TIME, March...
...Pearl. John Steinbeck's Mexican fable, overidealized but sometimes moving and beautiful (TIME, March...
...Pearl. John Steinbeck's Mexican fable, overidealized, but sometimes moving and beautiful (TIME, March...
Retorted Robert Charbonneau, Montreal writer and publisher: "Let the facts talk. If Americans do not like literature, how then explain the success of writers like Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill...
...John Steinbeck developed his story from a Mexican fishermen's tale, and it was filmed in Mexico. As a fable of man's hope, it has a great deal of beauty, even elements of greatness; as material for a moving picture-a story to be expressively told in terms of visible action-it is close to perfect. Unfortunately this fine poetic idea is handled much too "poetically." The characters talk too much and their dialogue, pseudo-biblical in style, constantly undermines their believableness as people...