"A collection of articles and reviews written in the nineteen-forties and fifties."
Form
Also issued online.
Contents
The mid-fifties -- The end of naturalism -- Higher and higher criticism -- The American conscience today -- The age of Wouk -- Theodore Dreiser -- Ernest Hemingway -- John Dos Passos -- William Faulkner : before and after the Nobel Prize -- Sinclair Lewis -- Thomas Wolfe -- By Cozzens possessed -- Further decline of the moderns -- Norman Mailer : the Bohemian of the national letters -- John Hersey : the revival of conscience -- Nelson Algren : the iron sanctuary -- J.D. Salinger : the wise child and the New Yorker school of fiction -- Saul Bellow : novelist of the intellectuals -- James Jones and the American war novel -- William Styron : the end of innocence -- John Howard Griffin : the devil in Texas.
