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...portrayed. Serious film criticism in the U. S. has gradually assimilated the most basic French ideas. In terms of the auteurist's gradual relinquishing of rationality, however, America's only auteur critic prior to Sarris was Manny Farber, who specialized in glorifying Raoul Walsh's James Cagney and Errol Flynn epics for readers of the Nation or Commentary...
...SOUNDS OF RESCUE, THE SIGNS OF HOPE by Robert Flynn. 270 pages. Knopf...
...Robert Flynn is one of those theologian-novelists who back their characters up against a dead-end wall and demand their credo or their life. In his latest little parable, Flynn proves he could turn even the Garden of Eden into one of his cul-de-sacs...
...then Robinson Crusoe's only problem was to survive nature. Greg Wallace is a 20th century man, and his problem, as Flynn sees it, is more difficult: to survive himself...
From the beginning, the helpful Kee has rather obviously been the key to Greg's survival. Does Flynn intend to reassert sadly that man seems destined to slay his saviors? Or is he bypassing salvation theology altogether and desperately endorsing an existential wager? "Do you ever think," Greg scrawls at the last, "that this life is madness, that this world is a prison, and that if you gave up hope you would be free...