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...Runners-up were James Hilton's Random Harvest and John P. Marquand's H. M. Pulham, Esquire, both Little, Brown books. Other Little, Brown hits: Nordhoff and Hall's Botany Bay, C. S. Forester's The Captain from Connecticut, Erich Maria Remarque's Flotsam, Helen Maclnnes' Above Suspicion...
...heroes of Flotsam are two among inestimable thousands of exiles: a young half-Jew; an older German who teaches him the ropes. The substance of Flotsam is the meaning of their predicament. This meaning is powerfully told in their misfortunes and, more powerfully still, in hundreds of details of the things they saw, did, felt, learned...
...Flotsam appeared first in the summer of 1939 as a serial in Collier's, next as the sincere, ineffective film So Ends Our Night (TIME, Feb. 10). In its final form, the result of a year's revision, it is worthy of an author who is responsible for the best novel about World War I, two of the best about post-war Germany...
...Flotsam has brief incidents, descriptions, and mere casual statements that have the impact and brightness of poems: Kern's exquisite pleasure, under shelter of a fortnight's residential permit, in asking a policeman for the time; Steiners utter lack of interest in the world's news ("For someone swimming under water . . . the color of the fishes isn't important"); the man who stands at a Paris police window seemingly in perfect nonchalance, streaming with the sweat of terror; a magnificent passage in which Steiner watches Germany swing past his train window in the dark; Steiner...
...theme of Flotsam is one of the most massive, intimate and terrible derangements of human living within human memory. Remarque, able as he is, is not fully equal to it; perhaps no human talent could be. Besides, Flotsam has some lyric flights that droop in midair; some touches of sentimental sententiousness; some comedy too national quite to cross a border; one or two bits almost of cheapness. But Remarque, like Hemingway, has the rare ability to produce writing which is both a genuine work of art and popular; and to embody a generation. For that reason Flotsam is a deeply...