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...COUNTRIES-John Dos Passos-Harcourt, Brace...
...expressions neither clever pungent nor, neither clever nor erudite--but natural, and honest. His characters, too, give the illusion of verisimilitude, much more than do Faulkner's, though of course they suffer from the necessity of proving that existence is unpleasant and futile. Two novel devices, somewhat reminiscent of Dos Passons' "Camera Eye" and "Newsreels" are used by March to emphasize and reiterate his theme. "The Whisper" consists of dozen very short stories which interrupt the main narrative to state in parables the recurring motifs of the novel; "From the Diary of Sarah Tarleton" consists of excerpts from the self...
...Good Will." These four books, (two volumes, in the American edition, of which the second is "Passion's Pilgrims") constitute a sort of prologue to the narrative which is to follow. In the second volume Romains again shows himself absolute master of the kaleidoscopic novel, the peer of Dos Passos at his best and even of James Joyce in the penetration and fertility of his imagination. Threads in the lives of his multitude of characters are picked up at intervals and followed long enough to make clear the peculiar problems of each, both in their relation to individual character...
...Good Will might have stirred up more excitement among critics if Authors James Joyce, John Dos Passos et al. had not already shown the way. Though Author Romains claims to be the originator of this style of modern novel-architecture, others were certainly first in the field. But if not best or first of its kind, Men of Good Will may yet be biggest...
...Soviet reader were asked to name his favorite U. S. author he would probably say John Dos Passes. If the same question were put to a Swede, the first name off his tongue would doubtless be that Nobel Prizeman Sinclair Lewis. But such a loyal Swede would have in mind Author Lewis' earlier, better books (Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry). With such a second-rate novel as Work of Art following hard on the heels of his mediocre Ann Vickers (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), readers of any nationality can see with half an eye that Sinclair Lewis is slipping...