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...stories, as the wrapper announces find their grace and power and conviction as they reflect his own nimble curiosity and his insatiable demand for now affirmations of life." Whether, however, they present as "lucid and honest a vision as Whitman or Rousseau" is a matter for future generations to decide. "They do", however, "comprise realistic and experimental stories, travesties, and allegories, tormented searchings and sardonic commentaries...
...bullfighter. One nobleman explained his kindness to his servants by inquiring: "How can I be sure my real father is not among them?" There were riots every day in Madrid except during the Siesta. Across the Pyrenees in France, Voltaire and a Swiss-born neurotic called Jean Jacques Rousseau were mouthing strange phrases that were to mean a revolution, Napoleon, and the conquest of Spain. But in Madrid and throughout the land they reveled and stabbed and hoped only to see the morrow. Francisco Goya was born in 1746 of a remotely noble mother and a farmer father in Fuentodos...
...included in his book. He is rather deaf, has a sloping forehead, a shy Slavic face; his mustache and hair parted in the middle give him the look of a Yiddish Robert Louis Stevenson. Other books: Gallimathias (poems), Zola & His Time, Portrait of the Artist as American, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Robber Barons is the March choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...same essential fallacy that characterizes the rest of Ronsseauistic ideas. Nationalism and it is almost synonymous with liberalism being Ronsseauistic and Romantic in its origins, is fundamentally contradictory; that is to say that the ideals contained in the nationalist conception are inevitably overwhelmed by the real, just as Rousseau after a long essay on the beauty of pure childhood announces that he has just placed one of his children in an orphanage. In the same way nationalism starts as the doctrine of the brotherhood of man and finally culminates in integral Fascism and inevitable...
...obstacles to the realization of the EPIC Utopia are so obvious as scarcely to need comment. They fairly jump at the reader of the book. Not only is Sinclair's economic theory shoddy, but his Rousseau-istic faith in the goodness of man is child-like in its simplicity. That all the wealthy people in California would allow themselves to be peacefully legislated out of their property in a few months presumes just a bit too much on the softening influence of California sunshine. Sinclair's name may appear on the Democratic ballot in the primaries this August...