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...International and the democratic countries, he adds the unkindest cut of all, says they probably control the fascist countries too. They organize wars, revolutions, panics, famines, inflation and deflation. Growing more lyrical, Céline damns as Jewish, Cézanne, Charles Chaplin, Lenin, Madame Curie, Racine, Montaigne, William Faulkner, Stendhal, Zola, the Vatican, the French general staff, the Catholic clergy, critics, propagandists, politicians, movie producers and the people who rejected his ballet...
RACHEL'S CHILDREN - Harriet Hassell-- Harper ($2.50). The Biblical story of Joseph fitted to a family of Southern landowners, bossed by a tyrannical widow whose eventual insanity gives the story its faint echo of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. A first novel by a 26-year-old Alabama coed, a Story magazine prize winner of last year...
...events and consequences of every turn of the struggle, embodying the very essence of the Southern viewpoint. But there are no pictures of the battles and bloodshed, of the marches of destruction made by the Northern armies. These have already been told all too often. Instead, William Faulkner gives the psychological reactions these events had on the home life of a typical Southern family...
...story is told in the person of Bayard. As the scene opens, he is a boy of twelve, and the style is juvenile. As the novel progresses, the style becomes more mature, and the final result is the rich and colorful prose characteristic of Faulkner's previous works. This book should take its place as a worthy successor to Absalom, Absalom...
...Saturday Review. Writing in a prose style so vehement it sometimes seemed apoplectic, Editor De Voto raged at U. S. intellectuals, accusing them en masse of "misrepresenting" the country. He passionately championed the cause of the Italian sociologist, Pareto. His critical haymakers included swings at Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Marx, reformers and believers in planned societies, Van Wyck Brooks, progressive education. With enthusiasms just as intense as his animosities, he called Robert Frost "the finest American poet, living or dead," raged at critics who did not agree. The back pages of the Saturday Review continued to be given over...