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This novel is a soy-pp. crying jag. The tears are shed for life as a lost cause. Such a melancholy viewpoint seems to come naturally to the Southern school of U.S. writers of which Virginia's William Styron is an unevenly talented member. Characteristically, most Southern writers equate the post-bellum fate of their region with the universal fate of man, and identify decline with tragedy. Amid romanticized passivity, violence erupts in Gothic melodramas of rape, murder and madness. Among the few exceptions: some of William Faulkner's Negroes, who achieve the dignity of stoic endurance. Unfortunately...
...SAVIORS OF GOD (143 pp.)-Nikos Kazantzakis-Simon 6-Schuster...
THREE CIRCLES OF LIGHT (246 pp.) -Piefro d! Donato-Julian Messner...
...CHANGE OF MIND, by G. M. Glaskin (232 pp.; Doubleday; $3.95), carries the novel of escape to the point of no return. What, asks Australian Novelist Glaskin, is the fix of a fellow who finds that his mind has entered the body of another man? The answers are provided by a pair of hapless friends who have been dabbling in hypnotism and find themselves the bewildered guinea pigs in a case of "inter-transmigration...
IMPERIAL-CAESAR, by Rex Warner (393 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $5), recalls the fact that, perhaps because he campaigned on their island in 55-54 B.C., British writers have been markedly fond of Julius Caesar. From Shakespeare to Shaw, they have drawn a quasi-Churchil-lian portrait of the Roman dictator-arrogant and domineering on occasion, but indomitable in adversity, magnanimous in victory, farsighted in policy. British Author Rex Warner, an old hand at translating Caesar, has set out to fictionize him. In doing so, he carries fondness a step farther and tries to quash the lingering suspicion that Caesar...