Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1946 — Page 6
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‘Regular Wednesday Feature of The Times : FIRST READER . . . By Harry Hansen
James T. Farrell Pictures - - A Young Author Full of Turmoil, Frustrated Ardor
“BERNARD CLARE" A™noval: By James T. Farrell, Now York, Vanguard, $2.75, = : :
WHEN THE armed services editions were moving millions of paper-bound books to the front during the war,
several fighting units in the Pacific put in requests for
James T, Farrell's Studs Lonigan stories.
The committee of selection, of which I was a member, |
tried to oblige, but presses could not roll until both the army and navy representatives agreed, and the
navy refused. Thereafter, the army had to buy these stories in the regular clothbound editions, whereas the boys who manned the ships had to go without them. Although Studs Lonigan never rated very high with ‘me as art, I ‘never would have stopped anyone from having access to the books. The first of the series. “Young Lonigan,” appeared in 1932, and in-
own tensions, If they do not do| this they cannot enlist their emotions, their total nature in what they do. The divided writer who sees his problem as that. of being a so-called journalist and propagandist, or of being an artist who writes for the future is, in reality, the writer who has not seriously and thoroughly enlisted his emo-! tions in his work.”
» ” » NO KNOWLEDGE is definable | {as such until it is experienced subtroduced a Dreiserian writer de-|jectively, No matter how objective termined to tell his story on thea writer is, he must bring the data level of the characters he de-|of the outer world directly into his scribed. own consciousness. . , . Before one At first it seemeg strange that an| can clearly speak to others about educated man should thus reject the, human emotions, about values, one treasures of a literary language, must struggle and fight for inner bit as one novel followed another, | clarity, and dozens of writers imitated them, will merely force the writer to rewe began to see reason in the argu-|press these saturated feelings.” Perhaps these lines also throw By now over a million copies of| some light on what he is about in Farrell novels have been sold, their portraying Bernard Clare.
palace of the National Institute of | ir Le as Carfer Book there without a tie and in shirt Called Timely
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Homesickness for Indiana
Strict ideological dictation |:
1umes of poetry.
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Theme of Unusual Book | ‘By HENRY BUTLER |
"SOLDIER WORDS." . By ‘Hargis Westerfield: Boston, Bruce]
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HOMESICKNESS for Indiana, homesickness for Bloomington—that's a recurrent theme in the poems of Hargis Westerfield's “Soldier Words.” The genuineness and the immediacy of the sentiment give the book unusual local interest. : For while the taste, the restraint, the power of Mr. Westerfield's| verse can claim attention anywhere, the book is, I hope, likely to. be| read by a lot of Indiana people]
who ‘do not customarily buy vol- TODAY'S STACKUP— ~~ loyalty
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APART FROM the Hoosier angle,
’ Mr. Westerfield's book is as fine a di Ii ' compression of war experience og iIanapo iS
you're likely to read.
; » ‘Ss new $ ” | R . : novel Barnard Clare Bernard] "SIN AND SCIENCE" By | Here is one man's a snsuvel R @F1NQS | is not a Studs Lonigan or a Danny Dyson Carter. New York, |g. tion TRE SORE Tr, from jae O'Neill; he has an inner turmoil Heck-Cattell. $2.50. figs" enter to the South Pas) Ayres’, Block's, Capital,| not shared by them. You trace the development | : ee i He wants to become a writer, FEW BOOKS could be more a certain realistic grimness that, Meigs, Meridian, Sears and |
He arrives in New York from Chi-| timely than “Sin and Science without a job, in revolt against | mel even here in Indianapg his family, his church and critical FOr With ~municipg] of the social order; already a sym. | troubles felon eo pathizer with Sacco and Vanzetti| “PProPriations gf,e pyplic
and talking vaguely about a big Center, chie book. {ing ve
Health
It is 1927, when gold lined the highways, but Bernard is not g# miner. The gist of his jeremiad is that tel, Jespite (or because of?) scientific {advances (sulfa, penicillin, etc),
5 blutions | the incidence of venereal disease
adually replaces the training- : y . 3 Er on and idealistic patriot- | Stewart s give the following| ism. [titles current best-selling It may strike some of us alumni| of Ft. Harrison as remarkable that anybody could find poetic material | out there. Yet Mr. Westerfield did. | I think I understand the mood.
ratings: NON-FICTION “My Three Years With Eisen-
Training days, with the complete | Owe BY Capt. Havey C. Butcher. change of routine and the height-| “The Egg and I, by Beity Macened awareness of impending] Donald. tragedy, sharpened insights and! “Peace of Mind.” By Joshua Liebgave sunsets, rain—even mud rare man.
significance. The unspoken ques- | “Solo in Tom-Toms.” By Gene
{seems to be sharply increasing. later in| . {Certainly army medical experience
: | p selling cigars and Pears him out.
id cigars once, too—and 5 8m i inwardly at his cheap| SCIENCE, education—these have ssdelations and the vacuity of the simply not worked, says Mr, Carter. minds around him. {The problem is first and foremost a x 2 8m | moral problem. It's a problem in S$ in the reading room, luman relations, not to be solved public library, but every| bY slogans or - not-always-reliable {quick treatments. The only way to
starts wri he begins about a his ok! eliminate venereal disease is to
to know them intimately and | €liminate the immorality which torment returns. fransmits it, Bernard, sitting in the library, is| Everybody will agree with Mr.
a capital portrait, and his con- Carter thus far. Everybody will ] desires seem a true picture 28ree that more marriages, more
of youth. _ (permanent marriages, would be a The class consciousness peters 800d thing. If everybody were hapout. Bernard gets into a relation- pily married, the problems of disship with a married woman, thinks 8 and delinquency would dwindle he is in love, and fights” with her|'© almost nothing. husband. 177 ££» » His thwarted desires, literary as-| BUT WHEN Mr. Carter cites evipirations and disgust at his asso- dence showing that, alone among " ciations make him a difficult com-| all countries, Russia has almost
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panion. With no orderly plan in|completely solved the triple prqb- |
his head, he breaks out with ironic|lem of disease, delinquency and interruptions and finally a mean alcoholism, he will offend many jag. This conduct comes because] readers. he fears to face himself, is lonely] That's unfortunate. I suspect and rebellious. there's a lot of truth in what he The upshot is that he returns, to) tells about Russia. But I don't see Chicago determined to “chain my|bow the Russian example can be feelings of rebellion” and become | of much help to us in our admitted a writer. This does not seem to| confusion on social problems—not have much to do with the irre- NOW, at any rate, sponsible conduct that goes -before,| but it's Mr. Farrell's idea of a man finding himself.
n ” ” WITHOUT ' FREE exchange of ideas and students between the two a. 2 8 countries, mere reporting of RusJIM. FARRELL is one of the few younger writers to whom the Starry-eyed Beatrice and Sidney Marxian influence was not a fad| Webb, will run bang up against or a fashion. He knows the effect| American mistrust, J of environment and economic con-| But Mr, Carter's trenchant book, ditions on youthful opportunity despite many questionable generaland character and has consistently izations, should give educators and worked these influences into his clergymen a lot to think about. stories. —H. B. But he differed from the prole-| tarians of the 1930's in that he New Bantam Books never became ah artist in uniform. To conform to a party line in literature would revolt Jim Farrell's highly individual soul and antagonize his basic integrity. For this reason- he battles In| print with the party-liners and! calls them sharply to account from | time to time. |
| thony Hope's “The Prisoner | Zenda," Peter Dawson's “Trail 08s,” “First Come, First Kill,” a
murder mystery by Francis Allan
stories by Arthur Kober.
sian medical authorities, or even of |
Latest Bantam books received by | The Times book page include An-
[ 4 - | Qo FOR | " : i | hy and ‘My Dear Bella,” a 35 luminous Teil .-
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tion was: How long am I to see pgwler,
| all these things? “Man-Eaters of Kumaon,” By Jinn
Rix | Corbett MR. WESTERFIELD speaks that . “Earth Could Be Fair.” By Pierre
question, as he speaks iany other things it would take volumes of Von Passen. prose to encompass. “Soldier “Top Secret.” Words” (the title is a little ironic, soll. { since some of the most frequent FICTION and characteristic soldier words | “The Snake Pit” By Mary Jane can't be printed) is fine, informa- | wo. Hive yeading, | “Proving Ground.” The poems in the volume were ; oqo. written between Feb. 10, 1943, the] date of the author's induction, and . December, 1944, when he was -in lette Covert Nolan. rest camp with the 41st division] “The Foxes of Harrow.” By Frank| in Dutch New Guinea. Wounded Yerby. in June, 1944, he was returned to! “Arch of Triumph.”
By Ralph Inger-
By Leone
By Erich
year. He later served in the army
of occupation in Japan. ; A resident of Bloomington, Mr. Named Consultant
Westerfield is a Teaching Fellow For Random House at Indiana university. {
BR , Anthony Boucher, mystery «editor "Here's O'Hara’ of the San Francisco Chronicle, has| been appointed free-lance mystery | Off Presses Today ; | story consultant by Random House, | “ 9’ » ”» y Here's O'Hara, an anthology { publishers of many whodunits, of selected stories and novels by 3 ) : John O'Hara, is announced pv| Besides his column, Mr. Boucher Duell, Sloan & -Pearce. has to his credit five
mysteries
Included in the anthology are under his own name, and two more | Butterfield 8" “Hope of Heaven,”| , hqeor the pseudonym of H. H. { “Pal Joey,” and 20 of O'Hara's] Holmes { short stories. |) I - { ———————— — i | Elie . | Inside Yugoslavia Inside material on Gen.” Draga Mikhailovitcn, Yugoslav = Chetnik
leader, and international problems arising in Trieste, will be among problems discussed in David Martin’s "Yugoslavia: A Case “History in Russian Imperialism,” scheduled by Prentice-Hall for early fall release,
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His latest entry Into the arena concerns the literary conscience of Albert Maltz, a leftist writer of considerable ability, “who tried to reject the party theory that an artist of the left must trim his
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FOR THIS heresy Howard Fast, ~ Joseph North and Isidor Schneider jared Albert Maltz, making him admit he had been muddled lining him up again with the “theory of literary art. this regimentation Mr. ” with his customary | ing that a writer! n convictions and
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