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Word: wenzell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, The World's Last Corner is a picaresque novel with the juice squeezed out. The traditional picaresque offers a rogue-hero merrily breaking social conventions to rise from squalor to respectability; Plieviers hero, Wenzel, is more victim than rogue - a seafaring, 20th Century Everyman who breaks the laws of society only because he wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Before Stalingrad | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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